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solitary vice en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Masturbation.
   • Boys come to our school from many different classes of preparatory and secondary schools. Almost every such school seems to possess a few boys who delight to initiate younger boys into sexual knowledge, and usually into knowledge of solitary vice. 1919, Mary Scharlieb, Frederick Arthur Sibly, Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys:
   • 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. [1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young:

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Relateds

sapphic vice

Synonyms

masturbation · ham shank · polishing the jewels · pocket pool · self-love · solipsism · self-pleasure · shaking hands with the milkman · Hand Solo · hand shandy · wank · spanking the monkey · secret vice · choking the chicken · celebrating Palm Sunday · shaking out the curtains · onanism · jacking off · ipsation · self-pollution · lone rangering · romancing the bone · mastupration · milking the sausage · beat one's meat · manustupration · jerking off · tossing off · self-defilement · secret vice · solitary vice · self-abuse · peeling the cucumber