Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: bourbon

While Onanism has become a synonym for masturbation, read the passages again. It could just as easily be that Onan was using the withdrawal method, a very risky mode of birth control but nevertheless a reasonable interpretation based on the description in the passages.


19 posted on 04/28/2005 12:36:19 PM PDT by drjimmy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]


To: drjimmy
It could just as easily be that Onan was using the withdrawal method, a very risky mode of birth control but nevertheless a reasonable interpretation based on the description in the passages.

Okay, let's assume that's true. If that is the correct interpretation (i.e. that the withdrawal method is a sin), then how could masturbation not also be immoral?

29 posted on 04/28/2005 12:44:51 PM PDT by bourbon (quasi morientes et ecce vivimus!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson