Onania; or, the heinous sin of self-pollution, and all its frightful consequences, in both sexes, consider'd. With spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injur'd themselves by this abominable practice
Subtitle: to which are added, divers remarkable letters from such offenders ... : as also letters from eminent divines, in answer to a case of conscience ... : as likewise a letter from a lady ... and another from a married-man ... and two more from two several young gentlemen ... and another surprizing one, from a young married lady, who by this detestable practice became barren and diseas'd
Edition: The sixth edition / corrected and enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by T. Crouch, Bookseller ...
Published: 1722
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Notes: An anonymous work on masturbation, published in numerous editions throughout most of the eighteenth century, the first published around 1710.

Author was supposedly a Dr. Bekkers. Cf. Hunter, R. Three hundred years of psychiatry, 1535-1860, p. 349.

Signatures: A-O8.

ESTC T153676.