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Onan
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Onan (ō`nən), in the Bible, Judah's son, whose evasion of his obligation to his brother's widow caused his death.


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Stekel was a part of the Vienna psychoanalytic circle organized by Sigmund Freud, and Stekel participated in the original discussion the group had on onanism in 1910.
1712, now attributed firmly to John Marten) and Tissot's Onanism (1758).
They were apparently cautious in the confessional too, seldom if ever questioning penitents about what continued to be called the sin of onanism.
 
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