Since many people condemn what they do not really know, it is good to give here the exact teaching of the Church on the evil of contraception or
Onanism.
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onanism, overseer, pagoda, picknick, poker, Polynesia, pragmatist, prestigious, pudenda, rendezvous, soothsaying, stateswoman, text-book, ticket, Yankee.
But as the show progressed, from the seemingly endless routine on
onanism, to one particularly low point where he fantasized about being with a Lebanese woman in order to hear her whisper sweet nothings in French, and compared it to an encounter he had with a French-speaking Canadian described in terms so distasteful I nearly tuned out, his aim grew weaker and weaker.
A man who desires above all his solitude (and as Greven shows is in this way marked by pathologies of character suggestive of
onanism), Fanshawe neatly "exposes the fundamental incoherence of self-made manhood's rise within a heteronormative, homosocialized culture that was equally insistent on compulsory marriage and compulsory same-sex ties and yet committed to a model of self-made individuality predicated on ...
Strong spatial images and metaphors of both openness and enclosure, fluidity and fracture, mark the description of this rite of passage from childhood and adolescent
onanism into adult sexuality.
[Kavanagh's] take on Nureyev's life is more triumph than tragedy, a tale of self-reliance and self-fulfilling
onanism." RACHEL HOWARD
Second, I agree completely with Tony that country teams meeting in bubbles to talk to each other is a form of perversion unique to the government that resembles
onanism, not diplomacy.
That is what Kathleen Spencer does in her excellent article dealing partly with theories of degeneracy, and it is likewise the strategy of Robert Mighall, who reads the novel within the context of medical discussions on the effects of
onanism. However, such criticism leaves disease itself as an ahistorical place marker for other aspects of late Victorian medicine.
As its title - Menage A Un - might suggest, this is a show about "loneliness, onlyness and
onanism", and sex (or the lack of it) features heavily for the stand-up comedian as he embraces his own mid-life crisis.
Potentially a form of musical self-expression, drumming is reduced to mindless automatism and is itself a kind of artistic
onanism. Deadening thought, diminishing consciousness, subordinating artistic self-awareness to an instinctual response to rhythm, drumming accompanies infantries off to slaughter on the battlefield.
The lectures offered "a very clear trace" of several dossiers (on medico-legal expert opinion, on the human monster, on
onanism) and of two manuscripts.
To the stigma of the disease was added the shame of suspected
onanism. As Brown shows well, this affliction served to isolate and estrange the young Flaubert even further from the bourgeois society he so despised, but it also had the happy consequence of excusing him from following a career in the law and of allowing him the leisure to write.