contrectation
Noun
The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man the impulse of contrectation is the more important.
Not to spoil his pleasure she allowed him the most intimate contrectations, stopping short only at cunnilingus.
More examples (1)
[W]e frequently meet with pubescent boys in whom the contrectation impulse, or the psychic component of sex, appears in isolated form.
A touching or handling; manipulation.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
Word forms
contrectations