Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.

Date:
1756
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Credit: Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Time, come ever to that Robuftnefs or Strength which they would have arrived to without it. In Men, as well as Boys, the fir ft Attempt of it has often occasioned a Phymofis in fome, and a Paraphymofis in others: I mall not explain thefe Terms any further ; let it fuffice, that they are Accidents which are very painful and trouble- fome, and may continue to be tormenting for fomeTime, if not bring on Ulcers, and other worfe Symptoms; efpecially if managed by raw unskilful People, whom to employ it is moft commonly the Fate of young Men, who, being confcious of their Guilt, have not the Aflur- ance toaddrefs themfelves to Men of Worth and Expe- rience. Whoever wants to know the Signification of thefe Words, any Surgeon will inform him. THE frequent Ufe of this Pollution likewife caufes Stranguries, Priapifms, and other Diforders of the Penis and Tejhs, but efpecially Gonorrhoeas, more difficult to be cured, than thofe contracted from Women actually labouring under foul Difeafes. When the Seminal VefTeis are firffc ftrained, and afterwards relaxed, the Ferment in thcTeftes is deftroyed, and the Seed, grown thin and wa- terifh, comes away unelaborated, without any Provoca- tion : This Diftemper often proves fatal, even under the Hands of the moft skilful. Thefe Gonorrhoeas are chiefly occafioned, fays Eimuller (a famous Phyfician) a damnata Majlupratione> from that damnable Self-Pollution; and, as Dr. Baynard alfo 'confirms (fpeaking of this Practice) by that curfed School-wickednefs of Mafturba- tion, Res fa da diclu. IN fome it has been the Caufe of fainting Fits and Epilepfies, in others of Confumptions; and many young Men, who were ftrong and lufty before they gave them- felves over to this Vice, have been wore out by it, and by- its robbing the Body of its balmy and vital Moifture, with- out Cough or Spitting, dry and emaciated, fent to their G raves. In others again, whom it has not killed, it has produced nightly and excefiiveSeminal Emiffions, aWeak- nefsin the Penis, and a Lofs of Erection, as if they had been caftrated. Many a young Gentleman (fays the fame Dr. Baynard) has been for ever utterly undone by it: The Reafon he gives for it is, That ufe d when young, it fo forces