masturbation
n. uncountablen. the act of touching your own body for sexual pleasure. It is a private activity that most people consider a normal part of human life.
n. the stimulation of one's own genitals for sexual arousal or orgasm. While historically stigmatised, it is treated in modern clinical contexts as a standard aspect of human sexual behaviour.
Many doctors say that masturbation is a healthy part of life.
The health class included a section on masturbation to help students understand their own bodies and sexual development.
The shift in medical discourse during the twentieth century moved masturbation from being viewed as a pathological concern to being recognised as a common and harmless practice.
Borrowed from French masturbation, New Latin masturbātiō, masturbātiōnem. By surface analysis, masturbat(e) + -ion.
Uncountable in its general sense; rarely used in the plural.