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#176990 - 05/18/08 08:42 AM Re: dyspareunia [Re: Jose Gros]
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Onan was condemned not for masturbating but for coitus interruptus with his dead brother's wife.
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#176993 - 05/18/08 09:47 AM
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faldadge, even i got that one (related/relative/sister in law)
it might be (slightly better) as: a discontinued related practice..
(since relations with your widowed sister in law, is discontinued, (and Onan's act was too!)
(or am i over reading?. i think not... --good one Jose!)_________________________
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#176995 - 05/18/08 10:54 AM 
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In which language? Not in Latin (dexter) or Greek (δεξιος deksios); those words a related to Sanskrit dakshina 'right hand; south'. (There was an ancient Roman god of war named Quirinus, after whom the Quirinal Hill is named.)
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#176996 - 05/18/08 10:57 AM
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Technically a levirate marriage. I knew a little old lady who called her budgie, Onan, because he was constantly spilling his seed.
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#177004 - 05/18/08 12:01 PM
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In which language? Not in Latin (dexter) or Greek (δεξιος deksios); those words a related to Sanskrit dakshina 'right hand; south'. (There was an ancient Roman god of war named Quirinus, after whom the Quirinal Hill is named.)
must be related to / confused with recto and verso and quires and all that paginated kind of stuff.
-joe (or not) friday
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#177006 - 05/18/08 01:57 PM
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#177008 - 05/18/08 02:08 PM
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The point is that what he was condemned for wasn't the coitus interruptus. He could've coitus interrupted with anyone else and it would have been no sin. It was the fact that it was his dead brother's wife that made it a sin. It's like saying that doing some target practice at a shooting range is a related practice to armed robbery because you use a gun in both.
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#177009 - 05/18/08 02:19 PM
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Ah, I see; my bad. I was fooled by the Spanish orthography. Greek χειρος (kheiros) 'hand'. So, in English, the word might be autochiroeresty.
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#177013 - 05/18/08 05:04 PM
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#177020 - 05/18/08 11:02 PM
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Without getting to biblically inclined it was, as zmjezhd pointed out, technically a Levirate marriage which was legal. It was indeed the spilling of the seed for his own means that was the crime.
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