self-abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/
Forms: form: self-abuses
Etymology: From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
Senses: examples: text: Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe
Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:
glosses: Self-deception.
examples: text: No man hath any warrant for self-abuse: We are not nostri, sed alieni juris; and God will see we shall not destroy his work besides his will.
ref: 1653, Edward Waterhouse, Two Brief Meditations, London: Thomas Maxey, retrieved 28 Feb 2022, page 58:
glosses: Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
examples: text: If such conversion surgery is not readily available, which is normally the case, owing to the many legal dangers attendant to the operation(s), the transsexual may well attempt self-castration, other mutilations and even suicide, or fall into a reactive psychosis. Such self-abuse is apparently not at all rare.
ref: 1970, David W. Meyers, The Human Body and Law: A Medico-legal Study, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Well I lost control and hurt myself
I knew deep down that I needed some help
This self-abuse, it would not stop,
No matter how hard I tried
ref: 2005, Mark Civitarese, Scott Hadayia, Edward Underwood, “Scream Out”, in State of Discontent (CD), performed by The Unseen, →OCLC, ISWC T0722550857:
glosses: Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder.
synonyms: self-harm
examples: text: For which reaſon it is that a Gleet is always more or leſs difficult to Cure, as it is of greater or leſs Continuance, or is occaſioned by more or leſs Frequent ſelf Abuſes, or a more or leſs virulent Humor which gave the preceeding Infect∣ion; by every one of which cauſes the Glands are always more or leſs ſtretched, weakned and debilitated
ref: 1718, A Rational Account of the Cause, Nature, and Cure of Gleets, London, retrieved 28 Feb 2022, page 32:
text: The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory.
ref: [1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young:
text: Self-abuse is undoubtedly an evil in itself, because it is incomplete and unnatural, and sad is his state who has bound himself with the chains this vice can so deftly forge; but its chief danger is that it so quickly and easily becomes a habit, and then it is indulged beyond the power of the body to recuperate.
ref: 1887, Henry G. Hanchett, Sexual Health: A Companion to “Modern Domestic Medicine”, New York: Charles T. Hurlburt, retrieved 28 Feb 2022, page 17:
synonyms: word: self-pollution
word: celebrating Palm Sunday
word: choking the chicken
word: ham shank
word: hand shandy
word: Hand Solo
word: ipsation
word: jacking off
word: jerking off
word: lone rangering
word: manustupration
word: mastupration
word: masturbation
word: milking the sausage
word: onanism
word: peeling the cucumber
word: pocket pool
word: polishing the jewels
word: romancing the bone
word: secret vice
word: self-abuse
word: self-defilement
word: self-love
word: self-pleasure
word: self-pollution
word: shaking hands with the milkman
word: shaking out the curtains
word: solitary vice
word: spanking the monkey
word: tossing off
word: wank
qualifier: now frequently ironic or humorous
glosses: Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
Related terms: self-abuser
self-abusing