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Definition of Autoeroticism
1. Noun. Using you own body as a sexual object.
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Specialized synonyms: Masturbation, Onanism
Derivative terms: Autoerotic
Definition of Autoeroticism
1. Noun. The practise of stimulating oneself sexually ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Autoeroticism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Autoeroticism
1. 1. Sexual arousal or gratification using one's own body, as in masturbation. 2. Sexual self-love. See: narcissism. Compare: alloerotism. Synonym: autoeroticism, autosexualism. Origin: auto-+ G. Erotikos, relating to love (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autoeroticism
Literary usage of Autoeroticism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck (1916)
"which anal eroticism plays in our case we might speak more fully of this form of
autoeroticism. One not infrequently observes in little children that they ..."
2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"The homosexuals have thus remained fixed during the course of development from
autoeroticism to love of an object in a position nearer autoeroticism. ..."
3. Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Edward E. Hitschmann (1917)
"The homosexuals have thus remained fixed during the course of development from
autoeroticism to love of an object in a position nearer autoeroticism. ..."
4. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis by Abraham Arden Brill (1921)
"For some reason or other, the latter productions belong to autoeroticism. That is
why they seem to most people to be nothing short of insane productions, ..."
5. Mechanisms of Character Formation: An Introduction to Psychoanalysis by William Alanson White (1916)
"So that in the course of development from autoeroticism through narcissism,
homosexuality and incest to an object love, that is at once iCf. ..."
6. The Psychoanalytic Method by Oskar Pfister (1917)
"... in that he was tormented by awful fear of the physical and moral danger of
his autoeroticism or wished to escape by violence an obsessing phantasy; ..."
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