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never put that much steam into his vengeance for that act. Ask the next fellow you meet if onany is automatically followed by lightning stroke. That man is likely to say, "I've jacked off thousands of times, and so has many another man, without untoward consequences. If God ever struck a man dead for spilling his come outside a woman's cunt, God has changed his policy completely since then." Life insurance companies do not reject applicants because of onany.

Coitus interruptus is the term for Onan's act. Onanism is popularly understood to include jacking off; but jacking off is no sin, much less "the sin against the Holy Ghost," and unforgivable, as some blatherskites tell you. No person with any grounding in theology would be mistaken: sin has been defined as a deed, word or thought against God's law; and there is no Jewish or Christian law against jacking off. The Bible regulates in detail menstruation, fucking and defecation; so there is no possibility of an inadvertent omission.

Levirate marriage is the subject of Onan's story. "Levirate" is from the Latin expression levus ver, "left-handed husband." Among the ancient Jews, when a man died without begetting a son it was the law that his brother must fuck the widow until he got in her a son to carry on the dead man's name. The law is laid down in Deuteronomy 25 and is reasonable, considering. The custom's effect was to give the widow a husband if she needed a provider, and a son in her old age. That the regulation was nothing important (even then, when that code was observed) is shown by the light penalty prescribed for its violation. Under the law, a law long since superseded, if a widow called upon her husband's brother to "perform the duty of a husband's brother," and he refused she could spit in his face. Modern Jews no more than Christians still pay any attention to this law: to obey it in America they would have to violate the state law, and they do not even advocate that the secular law be changed.

Onan's story is given in Genesis 38, as follows: Jacob, the father of Joseph, had other sons, one of whom was Judah. Judah had three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. Er married Tamar, Onan stayed single and Shelah was too young to make babies when Er displeased the Lord (no bill of particulars is given) and was slain by him. Judah, according to the scripture, told

Onan, his only surviving mature son, "Go in to your brother's wife, perform a husband's brother's duty to her and raise up seed to your brother." Onan, the scribe tells us without our knowing whence came his word of Onan's knowledge, "knew that the seed would not be his; and when he screwed Tamar he spilled his seed on the ground lest he should give seed to his brother. "And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah," who slew Onan also.

Tamar now began to look like bad medicine. Apparently Judah, her father in law, decided that the woman who had had two husbands fuck her and die must be unlucky; for Judah sent her back to her father, promising that his third son, Shelah, should beget a son in her when he got big enough. When Shelah matured, however, Judah continued to stall; so Tamar disguised herself as a harlot and induced Judah himself to knock her up; so Er's line was perpetuated after all.

Man's sexual delight in man gave Christianity its revolutionary character; but Christianity, as have done so many young and popular religions, attracted to itself divers persons who missed the main point. Among these was a self-asserted turncoat named Saul or Paul.

sex Several attitudes toward are traceable among Christianity's originators. You may take the esoteric appraoch, practice man-love secretly and live at peace with your neighbors as the Essenes did; you may try the evangelical approach, telling the whole world androphily's glad news and get hanged for your pains as Jesus did; you may try the ignorant-idealist tactic of resolving to go without sexual exercise and carry on an endless war with yourself as many have done and do; you may adopt the ruthless, reckless and cruelly selfish policy of staying celibate and fucking other men's wives as millions of priests have done; or you might retreat into a mystical fog in which nobody can tell for sure what your policy is and you can't either. It was last-named attitude that Paul took.

Paul or Saul was a Christian or better say a Pauline preacher, about the loudest, most persistent and most ingenious of his time. He is supposed to have lived from about 3 to 68 a.d. His cotemporaries have left no word of him; and

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