solitary vice

English

Noun

solitary vice (plural solitary vices)

  1. (obsolete) Masturbation.
    Synonyms: secret vice; see also Thesaurus:masturbation
    • [1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young‎[1]:
      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.]
    • 1919, Mary Scharlieb, Frederick Arthur Sibly, Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys‎[2]:
      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.

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