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Genesis 38:8-10:
Not only was God pissed off with Onan, but now the State of Mississippi was weighing in.
The message I took away from that story was "do what an actual fucking deity standing in front of you says to do"
Could you not argue that a woman is doing this every time she has her period?
Also spitting, crying (tears), blowing your nose, pissing and taking a dump, losing hairs and dead skin cells,...
Oh shit you're right. It just says genetic material. I was interpreting that as "reproductive material". Which was giving them too much credit, because that's not the same thing.
Since it was meant as satire, this might have been intentional
If it was satire, why is it in !nottheonion@lemmy.world?
It's a real bill, but it's not a serious bill.
Don't forget about sweating and farting...
Don't forget a haircut! Or clipping finger nails! What about a shave?
These are all MINI-GENOCIDES.
I mean, if it was written well, it might say something like discharge reproductively viable genetic material. It looks like an unfertilised egg disintegrates before leaving the body, so isn't viable.
'Discharging genetic material' on its own includes a nosebleed.
BTW, masturbation is called Onanieren in German... a bit imprecise, biblically.
It's also called that in Japanese. I guess they got it from German/Dutch.
"onanism" is a word in English too. just not as popular.
keep in mind, that Onan, levirate marriages weren't about love or anything like that.
Like most (all?) cultures at the time, women were property, and couldn't own property.
Technically, Er's firstborn son would have inherited everything and then "taken care of" everyone else. Or rather, Tamar, would, on the son's behalf. but Er got smote by god for being a particular kind of dick before he had a first born son.
So in typical religious fruitcake fashion, instead of fixing the original problem- that Tamar had no way of inheriting anything or supporting her self- they decided the obvious solution was for the brother-in-law to get the widow pregnant.
of course Tamar was the same age as the third brother; who needed to grow up a bit before she could marry him... (ew, right?) so instead she gets sent back to her own family and- eventually- becomes a camp follower of Judah's.... and, ah. yeah.
I mean, these were people barely out of the caves trying to populate a nation. Mainstream religion has always been political propaganda, and kind of intentionally missing the point.