Like all good egotists I often have a look around the web to see if anyone is talking about me. Every time I google search ‘Goonanism’, it asks me if I mean ‘Onanism’.
In the past I have simply ignored it, until I got a comment saying that they thought that my blog was actually called ‘Go Onanism’.
So I looked it up at Dictionary.com and found this:
o·nan·ism (n):
- Masturbation.
- Coitus interruptus.
Interesting.
Update: It keeps getting better. I just uncovered Wikipedia’s entry on masturbation and found this:
The word “onanism” refers to the story of Onan, who was obliged but refused to consummate a levirate marriage with his dead brother’s wife:“And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.” (Genesis 38:7-9)
