self-pollution

English

Etymology

self- +‎ pollution

Noun

self-pollution (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Masturbation, seen as sinful according to religious dogma. [from 17th c.]
   • 1756, Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) […] , London: H. Cooke, page 1:

     SELF-POLLUTION is that unnatural Practice by which Perſons, of either Sex, may defile their own Bodies without the Aſſiſtance of others, whilſt yielding to filthy Imaginations they endeavour to imitate, and procure to themſelves, that Senſation which God has ordered to attend the carnal Commerce of the two Sexes, for the Continuance of our Species.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:masturbation

Hypernyms

• pollution

Translations

obsolete: masturbation

• Danish: selvbesmittelse c
• Finnish: itsesaastutus (fi)
• German: Selbstbefleckung f
• Swedish: självbefläckelse (sv) c