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. T commonly have a good Appetite for my Break- faft and Dinner, but very rarely for Supper : My ufua! Breakfaft is Green Tea, and hot Roll and Butter, and my Dinner Butcher's Meat of one Sort or other. I give you an Account of my Diet, that I may be the bet- ter informed whether it will be repugnant to the Means of my Cure. <c HAVING now given you a true Account of my deplorable Condition, I queftion not by that, by this Time, you are able to form a right Judgment of it, and are thoroughly convinced of the indifpeniible NeceiTity I lie under for your Advice. Therefore I moft earneftly beg and intreat you, for God's Sake, to let me have your Anfwer by Saturday Morning, directed for T- R , at which Time I will call at the Bookfeller's for it. I {hall very readily fubmit to your Prefcriptions, being de- termined to obferve whatever you think will be iuflru- mental to the RefHtution of thofe Seminal Juices which 1 have lo unhappily deprived myfelf of. Be pleafed to fig- nify in your Anfwer, if Walking is any-ways prejudicial to me ; for I go frequently Abroad about Bufinefs for a Friend of mine, who is beftowing upon me an Education in a commendable Science, and with whom I jfhall con- tinue to live, till lamina Capacity of procuringmy own Maintenance. I have fent you inclofed Half a Guinea, and hope that the Smallnefs of your Fee will not make me a lefs Object of Pity ; for I do allure you I would, with all Chearfulnefs, be more generous, did but my pre- sent Circumftances enable me fo to be : And if there are peculiar Bleflings referved for good Men (which is a Truth Chriftians are infallibly alTured of) I doubt not but that Deficiencies of this Nature will be made up with a more valuable Compenfation than Mortality is able to bellow. It only remains that I once more intreat you (if ever you were moved to pity a poor repenting Onan) ferioufly to confider my melancholy Cafe, and hope that that dif- fufive Goodnefs, fo experimentally confpicuous in you, will be now extended towards me in the fame companio- nate Degree, as it hath been to other unhappy Youths of this