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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

FWIW, hat's another one of those words that derives from an
interpretation of a Biblical verse. According to the Book of Genesis,
Onan was the son of Judah, and Genesis 38:9 states "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."  According to
that 'spilling your seed on the ground' is the 'Sin of Onan', from which
comes onanism.

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Beimler [mailto:john AT radiomind.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:36 PM
> To: InterNetWorkers
> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Not enough profanity in business books
> 
> 
> quotation from Michael Czeiszperger 
> <czei AT webperformanceinc.com> [on 020320 12:58]:
> 
> > http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,38665,00.html
> > 
> > For those of you who don't get enough profanity in the 
> normal, boring
> > business books, check this review excerpt from Spectacular Dot-Com 
> > Flameouts by Philip J Kaplan:
> 
> and I learned a new word -- "onanism"
> (http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=onanism)
> 
> Peace.
> 
> john
> 
> 
> 
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