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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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Reminds me I had a WanKer Kellogg’s breakfast today. Poor birds affected by this culture.
OTOH TIL “onanism” what a fun word.
The etymology is crazy. An old talmudic story about refusing to nut in your dead brother's wife
These men. The sin was not cumming on the ground, you idiots, or using his (careful grammar) dead brother’s wife as an onahole (super twisted to use this as analogous to masturbating)…
But greed! For in doing so, inheriting for himself in preference of his brother’s wife and her potential offspring!
It’s all BS, but still, how.
Well, more than just an inheritance. It deprived Ur of a namesake, effectively dooming his soul to an indefinite purgatory.
But then you let a bunch of Rabbis argue for a few centuries and they overthink it.