Credentia California CNA Practice Test

This item tests terminology for a sexual behavior. The term that directly describes self-stimulation of the genitals with the hand for sexual pleasure is masturbation. It refers to a person stimulating their own genitals to achieve sexual pleasure, which is a private and normal part of human sexuality in many contexts. In contrast, empathy means understanding others’ feelings, hospice is care focused on comfort at end of life, and ethics concerns moral principles guiding care; none of these describe sexual self-stimulation.