[ noun ] manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure <noun.act>
masturbation \mas`tur*ba"tion\, n. [L. masturbatus, p. p. of masturbari to practice onanism: cf. F. masturbation.] The act of masturbating; sexual self-gratification; onanism.
The spankings were believed necessary to get the boy to confess to what they called the sin of masturbation, which church elders believed was the cause of his illness.
Ten years later he published the first of two books on American sexual behavior that shook the American public to its primal roots and inventoried everything from infidelity to masturbation.
Five percent of priests were described as involved in "problematic sexual activity" such as "pornography and compulsive masturbation" and 1 percent in transvestism, or cross-dressing, Sipe said.
It also asked questions about oral and anal sex and masturbation.