Meanings
comparative more self-pleasing · superlative most self-pleasing
- That pleases oneself; given over only to one's own pleasure.
This, once again, is the art of introspection and stubborn, self-pleasing originality.
2005, The Guardian, editorial, 6 Oct 20051 more example
With such self-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed, / And thought so to beguile her grievous smart […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- euphemisticuncountablemasturbation
Imagining the neighbors could be doing the same will automatically add new potency to your self-pleasing.
2012, Robin Westen, The 12-Minute Sex Solution, page 431 more example
Even today, the thought is "good girls don't, but good boys do." The reality is, girls, like boys, are curious about their bodies and may experiment with self-pleasing.
2008, Moira McCarthy, The Everything Guide to Raising Adolescent Girls, page 162
Origin
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