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Onanism
A subject of purely academic interest to my aue chums, I know. The Guardian had a short piece on the subject :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1003236,00.html
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[nq:1]Although masturbation may have existed since the beginning of time, moral and medical anxiety about it can be dated to ... court of queen's bench for a book on the secret parts of women - published an anonymous tract called Onania[/nq]
Do we, as a class, subscribe to the idea that 'onanism' should refer to coitus interruptus rather than to masturbation?
John 'Just thought I'd toss that one in' Dean
Oxford
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1003236,00.html
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[nq:1]Although masturbation may have existed since the beginning of time, moral and medical anxiety about it can be dated to ... court of queen's bench for a book on the secret parts of women - published an anonymous tract called Onania[/nq]
Do we, as a class, subscribe to the idea that 'onanism' should refer to coitus interruptus rather than to masturbation?
John 'Just thought I'd toss that one in' Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]A subject of purely academic interest to my aue chums, I know. The Guardian had a short piece on the subject : http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1003236,00.html moral and medical anxiety about it can be dated to London in 1714. Rarely
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[nq:1]A subject of purely academic interest to my aue chums, I know. The Guardian had a short piece on the subject : http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1003236,00.html moral and medical anxiety about it can be dated to London in 1714. Rarely
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[nq:1]Do we, as a class, subscribe to the idea that 'onanism' should refer to coitus interruptus rather than to masturbation?[/nq]
Certainly. Masturbation is already an eponym, from the rapper MasterB.
And you can complete a chiasmus: Onanism is to coitus interrupts as Judaism is to ...
Certainly. Masturbation is already an eponym, from the rapper MasterB.
And you can complete a chiasmus: Onanism is to coitus interrupts as Judaism is to ...
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