pleasuring

Also she reads a lot of self-help books, and she consults the dictionary and thesaurus for pleasure.

Second, teen brains get more pleasure than adult brains do from rewarding behaviors such as eating junk food.

We’re all seeking pleasure, we’re all seeking to feel good, we’re all looking for relief from the things that are troubling us.

The value of such interests — for others perhaps it is the pleasure of their cooking, reading, getting fit or binge-watching — is only heightened by headlines that make your hair stand on end.

He gets wonderful exercise, he has a purpose every day, and he receives so much pleasure from it.

Arias claimed she had once caught him pleasuring himself while looking at photos of a little boy wearing only underwear.

Yet the party had not been wholly devised for purposes of pleasuring.

If not a Drunkard or a Reveller, yet going in that direction; having a liking for evil companions and Sunday pleasuring.

It was not thus that young ladies were allowed to go a pleasuring at New Orleans.

It was not the mirth and song of jolly pirates a-pleasuring ashore but the ferocious tumult of men in conflict and taken unawares.

I remember naught but that I wondered that you should prefer housewifery to pleasuring, answered Harriet gayly.