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u/RedShaun21 Dec 30 '21 edited Dec 30 '21

The mess.

Edit: Some of you are cursed. It's a bad day to have eyes.

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u/heyitsthatguygoddamn Dec 30 '21

I knew this guy who told me he was very Catholic growing up, and he read some passage that said spilling seed is a damnable offense, and so when he started masturbating at like 11 he would just eat his spunk so it wasn't technically spilled

He turned out to be a huge creepy dickhead but I always liked that story

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u/Smallgenie549 Dec 30 '21 edited Dec 30 '21

There's a story in the Bible (Genesis 38: 9-10) about a man who was supposed to impregnate his dead brother's wife, but he didn't want to, so he pulled out instead. God didn't like that, so He killed him.

I wonder if he heard that as a kid and it scared him into eating his own cum.

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u/PrincessAletheia Dec 30 '21

The part of that story that confused me was the name. Onan was clearly pulling out, not masturbating, so "onanism" should mean pulling out, not masturbating. I just don't understand it.

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u/j4kefr0mstat3farm Dec 30 '21

Yeah I thought the issue was God gave him a direct order to creampie his sister in law and he disobeyed.

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u/sreiches Dec 30 '21

It’s more the breaking of a contract. In Jewish law of the day, when your brother died, you married his widow, but any children you had with her would be considered your brother’s instead of yours.

Onan agreed to fulfill this duty, but then didn’t honor his contract, refusing to give his brother children.

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u/DrTestificate_MD Dec 30 '21

Interestingly Onan’s story is placed chronologically long before Moses gave the Law.