contrectation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin contrectātio, from contrectō (“to touch”).

Noun[edit]

contrectation (countable and uncountable, plural contrectations)

  1. (medicine, law) The initial stage of the sexual act involving manual contact and tumescence; sexual foreplay.
    • 1915, Bernard Simon Talmey, Love, a Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction, page 107:
      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 ...
    • 1916, American journal of urology and sexology, volume 12, page 165:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A touching or handling; manipulation.
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