Clive Thompson on Nostr: I stumbled upon the 1723 pamphlet "Onania", a book-length screed against masturbation ...

I stumbled upon the 1723 pamphlet "Onania", a book-length screed against masturbation ...

... or, "The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution"

It is really something: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_onania_1723/mode/2up

The original mention was in this this Slate piece on a new book -- and one *rather less censorious* -- about the subject