onanism

Since many people condemn what they do not really know, it is good to give here the exact teaching of the Church on the evil of contraception or Onanism.

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But as the show progressed, from the seemingly endless routine on onanism, to one particularly low point where he fantasized about being with a Lebanese woman in order to hear her whisper sweet nothings in French, and compared it to an encounter he had with a French-speaking Canadian described in terms so distasteful I nearly tuned out, his aim grew weaker and weaker.

Strong spatial images and metaphors of both openness and enclosure, fluidity and fracture, mark the description of this rite of passage from childhood and adolescent onanism into adult sexuality.

[Kavanagh's] take on Nureyev's life is more triumph than tragedy, a tale of self-reliance and self-fulfilling onanism." RACHEL HOWARD

Second, I agree completely with Tony that country teams meeting in bubbles to talk to each other is a form of perversion unique to the government that resembles onanism, not diplomacy.

As its title - Menage A Un - might suggest, this is a show about "loneliness, onlyness and onanism", and sex (or the lack of it) features heavily for the stand-up comedian as he embraces his own mid-life crisis.

Potentially a form of musical self-expression, drumming is reduced to mindless automatism and is itself a kind of artistic onanism. Deadening thought, diminishing consciousness, subordinating artistic self-awareness to an instinctual response to rhythm, drumming accompanies infantries off to slaughter on the battlefield.

The lectures offered "a very clear trace" of several dossiers (on medico-legal expert opinion, on the human monster, on onanism) and of two manuscripts.

To the stigma of the disease was added the shame of suspected onanism. As Brown shows well, this affliction served to isolate and estrange the young Flaubert even further from the bourgeois society he so despised, but it also had the happy consequence of excusing him from following a career in the law and of allowing him the leisure to write.