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Does the Bible say anything at all about masturbation? Short answer: no — and this episode's Data After Dark digs into why. We take on Onan (not your guy), Matthew 5:30, the "wasting seed" argument, and the crucial difference between ritual impurity and sin, before tracing how a whole lot of Greco-Roman philosophy — not ancient Israelite thought — shaped the shame so many of us grew up with. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:01 Data After Dark 1:44 Onan & Genesis 38 3:18 The Levirate Duty 4:16 "Cut Off Your Hand" 6:35 Prohibited Unions 8:36 The Wasted-Seed Argument 9:05 Impurity vs. Sin 12:02 Ancient Ideas About Semen 13:15 "Pearls Before Swine"? 16:05 She Contributes Half 18:41 But... Song of Songs 18:59 Greco-Roman Influence 21:36 Purity as Boundary Marker 24:25 The Verdict _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #DataAfterDark #Onan #BiblicalSexuality