onanism

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  1. noun Masturbation.
  2. noun Coitus interruptus.

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  • It also may be postulated that if wasting of seed is the real reason for prohibitions against homosex, then the Bible would have also explicitly addressed spilling of semen by self sexual stimulation, often called '' onanism '' by Orthodox Judaism, relating it to the Divine execution of Onan (Gn. 38: 4-10) for '' coitus interruptus ''. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • An enterprising use of Figma Hatsune Miku (not that negi onanism is any less enterprising), allowing the creation of 3D Courthouse of Doom —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • These men had previously been eunuchised by a process of continued and persistent onanism, which caused at the end a complete atrophization of the testicle In regard to the great number of hermaphrodites observed in Florida and on the Mississippi, the accounts are only reliable as far as they were present in female garb and in an apparent state of slavery, being compelled to do all the menial labor of the villages and camps, besides being used for pederasty, no examination having been made by any traveler. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
  • Here we have suggestions of a preventive to onanism, and a cure to male impotence when due to preputial interference. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
  • He solemnly affirmed that he had never performed the act of self-pollution but once in his life: and yet for years he had been a constant sufferer from nocturnal emissions until his manhood was nearly lost, evidently the result of the mental onanism which he had practiced without imagining the possibility of harm But it is not true that control of the thoughts is impossible. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
 

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  1. After Onan, son of Judah (Genesis 38:9).

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  1. from Onan (Gen. xxxviii. 9) + -ism.
 

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/ˈoʊnənɪzm/
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