/Masturbation in the Eighteenth Century
or: The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, And all its Frightful Consequences
By Christina Voss
Before the eighteenth century, there were two opposing positions on the subject of masturbation. From a religious perspective, masturbation was considered a sin as a non-procreative sex act, termed 'onanism' after the story of Onan, who spilled his seed on the ground (Genesis 38: verse 8-10). But from a medical...
- 06/15/2009
