How to pronounce “onan” in English

Onan is encouraged not to marry Tamar, his sister-in-law, but rather to give her a son.

Onan has sex with Tamar but denies her the means to protect or sustain herself.

"Then Judah said to Onan, go into your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went into his brother's wife"-- Whenever,

So shame on Onan.

referred to as onanism.

So I wanted to share with you the story of Onan.

Again, she conceived and bore a son whom she named Onan.

In my read of the story, then, Onan's real sin is that he is shirking his duty to his sister-in-law.

OK. Right. And so particularly in the Victorian era, you could read about how engaging in onanism will give you hairy palms, and turn you blind, and acne,

And fast forward 20 years, you have Facebook, for instance, where you can pretty much put whatever pictures you want and as Adriana has shown, onand MySpace, you go online, you