ipsation

English

Etymology

From Latin ipse (“self”).

Noun

ipsation (countable and uncountable, plural ipsations)

1. (psychology, dated) Solitary masturbation.
   • 1931, Wolfe W. Beran, Individual Psychology and Sex (1931)‎^[1]:

     Were this young boy a member of some primitive tribe he probably would find no need for ipsation, because at fifteen he would have found a sexual partner already and would be practising normal sexual intercourse with her.

   • 1941 October, Psychiatry Digest 1941-10: Vol 3 Iss 2‎^[2]:

     At age of 10 he was initiated into ipsation after mutual inspection of a little girl but this was an isolated instance; he was only interested from a distance.

   • 1961, albert niedermeyer, Compendium of Pastoral Medicine‎^[3]:

     In former times the dangers of ipsation were as much exaggerated as they have in recent times been underestimated. In the literature of modern medicine it is almost without exception considered an innocent action of compensation.