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Definition of Autoerotism
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 Autoerotism
1. Noun. Sexual activity involving oneself including masturbation and autoerotic asphyxiation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Autoerotism
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Autoerotism
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 Autoerotism
Literary usage of Autoerotism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"These two elements— autoerotism and the period of latency—have the result that
... The continually operating autoerotism makes it possible that the easier ..."
2. Mental Adjustments by Frederic Lyman Wells (1917)
"Their mental balance is stiuck at a low-level autoerotism, but they are not
necessarily unhappy in it. An epicure in pleasures of sense or intellect may, ..."
3. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"YEAR: 1896 1897 Cholera Infantum 1898 Broncho-pneumonia 1899 Croup 1900 Usual
exanthemata 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 mew- autoerotism continued to present ..."
4. Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory by Sigmund Freud (1910)
"autoerotism.—It is our duty here to arrange this state of affairs differently.
Let us insist that the most striking character of this sexual activity is ..."
5. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"He immediately adds the interpretation, which I should never have found : it
means autoerotism. This might have been made as a joke in the waking state. ..."
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