Onan

Onan

Onan was a figure detailed in the Book of Genesis chapter 38, as the second son of Judah who married the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite. Onan had an older brother Er and a younger brother, Shelah as well. After being commanded by his father, Judah, to perform his duty as a husband's brother according to the custom of levirate marriage with the late Er's wife Tamar, Onan instead refused to perform his duty as a levirate and "spilled his seed on the ground whenever he went in" because "the offspring would not be his", and was thus put to death by Yahweh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Onan has received more than 1,868,990 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Onan is the 945th most popular politician (up from 1,051st in 2019).

Onanism is the act of masturbation, which is the stimulation of one's own genitals for sexual pleasure.