Posted by pixies chick at 1cust102.tnt2.minneapolis3.mn.da.uu.net on April 28, 2002 at 19:10:01:
Yep - "Onania, or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution" - that's the title of an anonymous early 18th century book on the vice of masturbation.
Gee, I really thought studying human sexuality would be a little hotter than this. So far, I'm up to my elbows with virgin cereal producers and exotic beliefs like semen conservation and female pollution.
By the way -- some people thought it important enough to preserve semen that all the guys would go through a cocksmoking phase as a way to make sure they got enough semen to be able to handle the presence of women... Talk about your he-man wimmen-haters.