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• n  manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure

• Why this dance between crotch-grabbing and self-abuse? Part of the answer seems to involve deep personal issues with women.
• INTERVIEW Psychologist Steven Berglas on success and self-abuse.
• And if the guys in togas look silly to you, substitute the blood and self-abuse for a beer keg, projectile vomit, and ritual hazing, and you've got yourself a wild fraternity party.

• self-stimulation

News & Articles

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• All work and no play for children: Losing their childhood and their happiness?
  A UK Department for Health-commissioned survey in 2004 concluded that 1 in 10 British children aged 5-16 are diagnosed with mental disorders. Childhood stress, psychological problems and self-abuse are increasing. Gone are the hazy days when kids could run free all day and play. Through play “children develop… an emergent sense of competence … feelings of ‘belonging’, ‘usefulness’, and ...
  March 6, 2014 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Alanis Morissette in Philadelphia Inquirer
  Alanis said she felt feelings while making her new CD, Flavors of Entanglement: "I felt empowerment and rage and despondency, even giddiness and self-abuse. I ran the gamut."
• Angela Shelton in PR Web (press release)
  By healing and learning to love and respect ourselves we break the cycles of abuse; self-abuse, abuse of others and abuse of the planet itself,Angela explains.
• Antony Genn in Times Online
  Genn says that his attitude boils down, after years of what he terms "self-abuse born of abuse as a child", to this: "You only have one decision to make: are you going to be a positive force or a negative one? I'm going to play this game for...