Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mutual touching or handling.
- noun In civil law, such handling and removing of goods as will amount to theft if they are not restored to their original place.
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Examples
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But when the association between the processes of detumescence and those of contrectation has not yet occurred, the voluptuous sensation is independent of the contrectation impulse.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Much more frequently, however, it occurs in those in whom the phenomena of the contrectation impulse have also been previously manifested.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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_See_ Sexual organs secondary, 33-49 effect of contrectation on, 103-109 tertiary, 33, 34
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Association of contrectation and detumescence, 81-87 theory of sexual perversions, 130-133
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Interdependence of contrectation and detumescence, 81-87
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Let us first consider the phenomena of contrectation.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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But we must always remember that in the child more often than in the adult the voluptuous acme and the sense of satisfaction occur independently of the processes of contrectation.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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In the third place, the two processes, contrectation and detumescence, may occur simultaneously, without the detumescence being associated with the object of the contrectation impulse.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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This explains the fact that in the child both the peripheral voluptuous sensation, and also the voluptuous acme and the sense of satisfaction, are more frequently independent of the processes of contrectation than is the case in the adult Gradually the two groups of processes become associated with one another; and, as we have learned, this association frequently occurs even in childhood.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Impulse, contrectation, _See_ Contrectation impulse detumescence.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
jinglebelljosie commented on the word contrectation
1. handling, touching, esp. sexual forplay
2. an impulse to caress someone of the opposite sex
(from Foyle's Philavery)
March 1, 2009