secret vice

English

Noun

secret vice (plural secret vices)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of solitary vice
    • [1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young‎[1]:
      The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory.]
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