Onania

Onania: or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution by Anonymous 1730 proved remarkably popular and went into fifteen editions.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Onania: or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution by Anonymous 1730 proved remarkably popular and went into fifteen editions.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Onania: or, The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution by Anonymous 1730 proved remarkably popular and went into fifteen editions.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

It came into being "in or around 1712" with the publication in London of a short tract with a very long title: Onania; or, The Heinous Sin of Self Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences, in both SEXES Considered, with Spiritual and Physical Advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.

Me, Myself, and I Greenblatt, Stephen 2004

"It was not an accident" (Laqueur again) that Onania was published in the same decade as Defoe's first novels.

Me, Myself, and I Greenblatt, Stephen 2004

"It was not an accident," Laqueur writes, in the careful phrase of a historian eager at once to establish a link and to sidestep the issue of causality, that Onania was published in the age of the first stock market crashes, the foundation of the Bank of England, and the eruption of tulip-mania.

Me, Myself, and I Greenblatt, Stephen 2004

These four writers -- the author of _Onania_, Tissot, Voltaire, Lallemand -- are certainly responsible for much.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

His book was published in London, and entitled: _Onania, or the Heinous Sin of

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

The weirdest thing on show is Jan Manski's 'Onania' series.

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