Meaning of contrectation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
   countable, uncountable
2. A touching or handling; manipulation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Most animals have no desire for contrectation. In man the impulse of contrectation is the more important. If the individual practises total abstinence, i. e., if he abstains even from the gratification of the impulse of contrectation, then ...”

“Not to spoil his pleasure she allowed him the most intimate contrectations, stopping short only at cunnilingus. At the same time she herself did not experience the least trace of erotic libido.”

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