masturbatorium

English

Etymology

masturbate + -ium, probably by analogy with words like auditorium and sanatorium.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmæstɜː(ɹ)bəˈtɔːɹi.əm/
  • Hyphenation: mas‧tur‧ba‧tor‧i‧um

Noun

masturbatorium (plural masturbatoriums)

  1. (US, rare) A room in which a person masturbates; for example, a private room in a clinic where a sperm donor masturbates to produce semen.
    • 2002, Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, St. Martin's Publishing Group, published 2010, →ISBN, page 313:
      As for the rape, well, Dr. Finch did seem like a pretty horny old fat man. I thought back to his masturbatorium, his many “wives.”
    • 2014, Ben Lerner, 10:04, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 126:
      The distinguished female author and I were now unabashedly getting drunk. As we ate, I told her the story of my visit to the masturbatorium, and I had her cracking up; we were laughing loudly enough to draw some stares from other tables.
    • [2018 July 25, Nellie Bowles, “The Dawning of Sperm Awareness”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      At his clinic, sports are on TV in the waiting room, and the walls are painted dark. The room Dr. Turek calls the “masturbatorium” has a lava lamp, framed Playboy magazines and a photo of a vintage Maserati (his own).]

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