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Leviticus 15:16–18 states that any male who emits semen is considered ritually impure - whether the emission came through masturbation, nocturnal emission, or sex between married heterosexual partners. [17] [33] The traditional rabbinical interpretation of Leviticus 15 was that it applies to all sperm flows, including sperm flows due to ...
Onan was slain by God, which was deemed retribution for being "evil in the sight of the Lord". [16] The Talmud [13] explains that his sin was ejaculating outside the context of marriage. Modern Bible scholars say that his sin was denying a child to Er [17] [18] (which would have no implications for masturbation). [8] [19]
A 1992 World Health Organization report described normal human semen as having a volume of 2 mL or greater, pH of 7.2 to 8.0, sperm concentration of 20×10 6 spermatozoa/mL or more, sperm count of 40×10 6 spermatozoa per ejaculate or more, and motility of 50% or more with forward progression (categories a and b) of 25% or more with rapid ...
The attitude towards a male sperm is one of a potential future living human being, and thus, masturbation is referred to as morally, though not legally, similar to murder, in that the masturbator is exterminating his potential offspring. Kabbalistic literature declared the act of masturbation to be a major sin.
In Israel, stealing sperm (גנבת זרע) is a common phrase used to denote a woman sleeping with a man in order to get pregnant without telling him. It receives ample media coverage. [24] Some consider that the issue is unbalanced in favor of women and men who fall victim to "sperm theft" should also have the right to say no to parenthood. [25]
The story was written by a "prescientific mind" that considered the child to be contained in the sperm the same way a plant is contained in its seed. [14] [15] Onan's offense was therefore the deliberate destruction of human life. [14] Leviticus 15:16-17 says that a man who has an emission of semen should wash and be ceremonially unclean until ...
Making reference to Onan's offense to identify masturbation as sinful, in his Commentary on Genesis, John Calvin wrote that "the voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between a man and a woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is double monstrous." [33] [34]
Bible verses, accepted by most Christians as authored by men inspired by the Holy Spirit—presumably with a functioning sensus divinitatis—in which "God performs, commands, accepts or countenances rape, genocide, human sacrifice, pestilence to punish David for taking a census, killing David's infant to punish him, hatred of family, capital ...