autoeroticismn.
/ˌɔːtəʊᵻˈrɒtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊəˈrɑdəˌsɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɑdoʊəˈrɑdəˌsɪz(ə)m/ Originally Psychology.
Satisfaction of one's emotional or erotic desires by oneself; spec. sexual stimulation of oneself, masturbation; = autoerotism n.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [noun]
onanism1600
masturbation1603
mastupration1616
self-pollution1619
self-abuse1718
manustupration1728
self-stimulation1860
jerking1889
friggingc1890
autoeroticism1898
autoerotism1898
automanipulation1920
pocket billiards1940
wanking1944
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sexual excitement > specific
autoeroticism1898
autoerotism1898
alloerotism1911
alloeroticism1927
1898 H. Ellis in Alienist & Neurol. Apr. 290 In the manifestations of auto-eroticism we are concerned, not with a form of insanity, not even necessarily with a form of depravity, but with the inevitable by-play of that mighty instinct on which the animal creation rests.
1915 Criminal Sci. Monogr. 1 114 Her auto-eroticism may have helped towards the production of phantasies and the general tendency to evasion of the realities of life.
1958 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 397/2 Auto-eroticism aided by the mass of pornography which our modern ‘Welfare’ State places in the hands of youth.
1981 E. Sedgwick Tendencies (1993) 112 Part of the great interest of autoeroticism for lesbian and gay thought is that it is a long-execrated form of sexuality.
2002 Isis 93 476/2 There is not a single reference in Masturbation to the main obstacle, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the rational scientific study of human autoeroticism.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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