self-stimulation
- noun
- /sɛlfˌstɪmjʊˈleɪʃən/
- Offensive
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masturbación
- In discussions about sexual health, self-stimulation is often recognized as a normal and healthy part of human sexuality.
Examples
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Over time, your body becomes conditioned to self-stimulation and gratification.
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Presently, both camps regard the desires of slaves to escape captivity as appropriate and the satisfaction of sexual urges through self-stimulation as clinically benign.
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Also, in terms of self-stimulation and less interest in sex with your husband, the books actually spiced up our sex life.
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Reason 2: We shouldn't read erotica because porn and reading erotica will keep us less interested in sex with your husband and more interested in self-stimulation.
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While at first a little bit of erotica might give you a taste for your spouse, over time that rut reminds you how great you are at self-stimulation and how powerful your imagination can be.
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The recommended curriculum included skills that are typically deficient in autism, such as socialization, observational learning, attention, and communication, as well as reduction of interfering behavior such as self-stimulation.
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Many people find that self-stimulation can lead to increased sexual satisfaction and personal pleasure.
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She learned about self-stimulation as a way to explore her own desires and enhance her intimacy with herself.
Synonyms
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6.3
Touching your own or someone else's private parts to feel sexual pleasure
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9.9
The act of touching your own private parts for sexual pleasure
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6.8
Doing things to get pleasure for yourself
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9.9
Sexual pleasure you give yourself by touching your body
Touching your own body to feel sexual pleasure
Sexual pleasure a person gives themselves by touching their own body without a partner
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-stimulation = stimulation (transparent) = self + stimulation
The meaning 'stimulating oneself' is a direct, regular combination of 'self-' + 'stimulation' and is easily inferred by learners.
Etymology
The word self-stimulation combines self ('by yourself') and stimulation (from stimulate, 'to excite' or 'give pleasure'). So it means giving sexual pleasure to yourself.