What's the difference between masturbation and onanism?
Masturbation
Definition:
(n.) Onanism; self-pollution.
Example Sentences:
(1) (1953), female heterosexual experience was equal to or superior to masturbation experience as an indicant of female sexual reactivity to the erotic materials.
(2) The attitude section consists of 35 5-alternative, Likert-type items; responses to the items result in scores on 4 attitude scales: heterosexual relations (HR); sexual myths (SM); abortion (A); and Autoeroticism or Masturbation (M).
(3) The results obtained show that the androgen blockade ended his exhibitionistic behaviour and markedly decreased his sexual fantasies and activities, especially masturbation, without significant side effects.
(4) Some of the things acceptable [in other countries] – teaching 10-year-olds all about masturbation – is obviously going to stretch the boundaries of what is acceptable over here, but if you analyse what she is saying it makes complete sense."
(5) On the second occasion that Jackson masturbated him, the boy said, the singer had tried to get him to do the same to him.
(6) Observation refutes Freud's often quoted statement that masturbation is further removed from the nature of women than of men.
(7) The rather small amount of semen the man ejaculates suggests he is a frequent masturbator.” To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald’s enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
(8) MP-AH lesions reduced or completely eliminated the display of manual contacts of the partner, mounts, intromissions and ejaculations without interfering with masturbation.
(9) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(10) More than one third of the group masturbates occasionally.
(11) In both groups there were no changes in frequency of sexual intercourse, masturbation, or penile erection on waking nor in any of the moods reported.
(12) Case description methodology was used to obtain treatment acceptability ratings for mentally retarded and nondisabled (normal) sex offenders across three different offenses (masturbation, rape, and child fondling) and eight interventions.
(13) The long-term castrate showed erection and masturbation following IV imipramine treatment, suggesting that the effect of imipramine is not testosterone dependent.
(14) Bravely you masturbate, to make the pictures go away, but to no avail.
(15) In the magazine version ( the online version doesn't, er, beat about the bush), "masturbation" is swapped for the marginally more acceptable "sex".
(16) They include questions as to whether causes other than abuse, such as masturbation, infection or the use of other instruments, could have damaged the hymen or vagina.
(17) Browning used his experience as a former NPR science correspondent to explore this topic under a close lens: from meeting with Shanghai’s “sexy sociologist”, Yuxin Pei, as she spreads the good word of female masturbation to talking with Norwegian preschool teachers about their classroom gender experiments, Browning provides scientific substance to discussions about how people shift from traditional definitions of gender, or are gender fluid, today.
(18) Although most modern women know the word clitoris, a surprising number don't know where it is located and still don't masturbate or know how to have an orgasm."
(19) To elucidate a number of hypotheses about the development of sexual responsivity in women, a random sample of 100 undergraduate women was interviewed about their masturbation histories, techniques in masturbation, and the relationship of masturbation to intercourse.
(20) On multivariate analyses the subject's antibody status was found to be associated with receptive anal intercourse with a condom (P = 0.007) and mutual masturbation (P = 0.001), with HIV-seronegative men being more likely to practise either; no significant independent effect was associated with the partner's antibody status.
Onanism
Definition:
(n.) Self-pollution; masturbation.
Example Sentences:
(1) All that Charley-on-Charley action took onanism and narcissism to a new level.
(2) In the 18th century, semen conservation theory reentered Western medicine through Tissot's Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism.
(3) These conceptions and their cultural influences incidentally inform us about one of the origins of the reprobation of onanism, as well as one possible way, among many others, for traditional thinking to explain the clinical enigma of depressive syndrome.
(4) This painting acknowledges its creator’s seamy mind, sleazy fantasies and onanism.
(5) Some of these gaps can be filled by consumer onanism and by psychic palliatives such as Facebook and Twitter .
(6) Luckily, Louie is fuh-ny, mixing truly filthy humour – the highest onanism-gag-per-second ratio since The Contest episode of Seinfeld – with almost family-friendly fare.
(7) The conformation described here is very similar to that found for the related drug carminomycin I (Wani, M.C., Taylor, H.L., Wall, M.E., McPhaill, A.T. and Onan, K.D.
(8) A model for myoblast fusion is presented that is based onan interpretation of these observations.
(9) The enlightened William Charles Hood in 1862 listed among the causes of insanity Fright, Jealousy, Sudden Prosperity, Coup de Soleil and Onanism.