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flagellation
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flagellation /flag·el·la·tion/ (flaj″ĕ-la´shun)
1. whipping or being whipped to achieve erotic pleasure.
3. the formation or arrangement of flagella on an organism or surface.

flag·el·la·tion (flj-lshn)
n.
1. Whipping oneself or another as a means of arousing or heightening sexual feeling.
2. The flagellar arrangement on an organism.

flagellation
[flaj′əlā′shən]
1 the act of whipping, beating, or flogging.
2 a type of massage administered by tapping the body with the fingers. See also massage.
3 a type of sexual deviation in which a person is erotically gratified by being whipped or by whipping another. See also masochism, sadism.
4 the arrangement of flagella on an organism; exflagellation.

Flagellation
A masochistic, sadistic act in which participants derive stimulation, usually erotic, from whipping/being whipped, beaten, or otherwise physically—or in the case of self-flagellating clerics, metaphorically—abused

flagellation [flaj″ĕ-la´shun]
1. whipping or being whipped to achieve erotic pleasure.
3. the formation or arrangement of flagella on an organism or surface.


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