masturbation

Erotic stimulation of one's own genital organs, usually to achieve orgasm. Masturbatory behavior is common in infants and adolescents, and is indulged in by many adults as well. Studies indicate that over 90% of U.S. males and 60–80% of U.S. females have masturbated at one time or another. Christian moral teaching condemned masturbation as the sin of Onan, who in the Old Testament was censured for spilling his seed, and the Roman Catholic Church still officially condemns it.

Masturbation

(also onanism), a surrogate form of sexual satisfaction in which the erogenous zones—most often the genital organs—are artificially stimulated for the purpose of producing orgasm. Masturbation is widespread in the animal world. Most often in humans it is practiced at the age of puberty and no longer after a sex life is established. It is associated principally with sociosexual disharmony, which is caused by an awakening of sexuality before the individual is socially mature. The negative effects of masturbation are caused primarily by fear of consequences and can lead to neurosis.

G. S. VASIL’CHENKO

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Salvador Dali (1904-1989) in his paranoiac-critical works, such as The great masturbator, (1929), Phantasmagoria (1930), The dream (1931) and Apparition of a face and a fruit dish on a beach (1938) gives way to surrealist composite creatures.

The grotesque as it appears in Western art history and in Ian ... by Swanepoel, Rita / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies

Meanwhile, the film jumps back and forth in incoherent time frames between his childhood, when his mother used to break into the zoo at night and let the animals out of their cages, and the present, where his mentally challenged roommate and best friend Denny (Brad William Henke), a serial masturbator, collects rocks and drinks out of slug pans in people’s flower gardens.

Gag Time by Rex Reed / The New York Observer

The suggestion is that the male heroic painter is a self-centered masturbator.

Call me: interview with Joshua Abelow by Corsano, Otino / ArtUS

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