Masturbation

Manual erotic stimulation of the genitals or other erotic regions, often to orgasm, either by oneself or a partner. From Middle French masturbation, from Latin verb masturbor, conjectured to have originated from a contraction of manus (“hand”) and turbō (“disturb, throw into confusion”).

SYNONYMES OF MASTURBATION

• ham shank (vulgar, slang), hand shandy (vulgar, slang), Hand Solo , jerking off, onanism
• pocket pool, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, self-pollution, tossing off , wank Hyponyms- autofellatio, hand job

RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF MASTURBATION

After Onan’s brother Er died, his father Judah told him to fulfill his duty to his brother by entering into a levirate marriage with his brother’s widow Tamar to give her offspring. When Onan had sex with Tamar, he withdrew before his orgasm and “spilled his seed [or semen] on the ground”, since any child born would not legally be considered his heir. The next statement in the Bible says that Onan did evil and that God slew him.