In these the composer is often very frank about his own moods and depression, and frequently abusive of others, including mutual friends ( e . g . accusing his former secretary Ritter of onanism)
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The ever-obsessed and ever-astute D . H . Lawrence was clearly right when he compared reading with a furtive sexual experience; his word was onanism, but a trashy pickup will do just as well.
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Like the Russian psychologists'dogs, I hear the polling place open and almost nothing can keep me away, even though for the past three decades in the Federal City it was often an exercise in political onanism.
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"Onanism, " reprinted dozens of times and translated into all of the major European languages, sounded the first alarm in what was to become a wave of dire warnings that masturbation was not only immoral but also dangerous.
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The anti-masturbation wave began with a Swiss doctor, S . A . D . Tissot, and his wildly popular pamphlet, published in 1741, called " Onanism, or a Treatise on the Disorders of Masturbation ."
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It can be objected that these stories are little more than five-finger exercises-- this description surely applies to " Let Me Count the Times, " which tells of a married businessman's descent into compulsive onanism.
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Chlorosis is briefly mentioned in Casanova's " Histoire de ma vie " : " I do not know, but we have some physicians who say that chlorosis in girls is the result of that pleasure onanism indulged in to excess ".
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In 1866 he published " The Preventive Obstacle or Conjugal Onanism " in which he expressed his disapproval of sexual activity for anything but procreation, linking it to cases of physical dysfunction and disease he had treated as a doctor, as well as to moral degeneration.
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Kellogg was able to draw upon many medical sources'claims such as " neither the plague, nor war, nor small-pox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of onanism, " credited to one Dr . Adam Clarke.
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:The song is originally by Billy Idol, and googling'" Billy idol " " dancing with myself " masturbation'turns up over 1000 hits, notably this one, Odes to Onanism : Best Masturbation Songs .-- Anchoress 03 : 04, 30 July 2006 ( UTC)
