Definition of "onanism" []

• Masturbation. (noun)
• Coitus interruptus. (noun)

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• "So, the word onanism now is used commonly to mean masturbation the Japanese have borrowed the word as well in onaru."
• "From him the extreme sexual perversion called onanism has its name."
• "It also may be postulated that if wasting of seed is the real reason for prohibitions against homosex, then the Bible would have also explicitly addressed spilling of semen by self sexual stimulation, often called onanism by Orthodox Judaism, relating it to the Divine execution of Onan (Gn. 38: 4-10) for coitus interruptus."