Self-pollution
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Masturbation, seen as sinful according to religious dogma. obsolete, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From self- + pollution.
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