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Rape is never condoned in the bible in any way... And there's a passage in the bible where a man ejaculates beside a woman after having sex with her, and just that displeased God. (I don't have the passage on hand) God is pretty strict about sexual immorality. Here are the old testament laws on sexual immorality and what God considers a perversion |
The point of the story of Onan was that Onan was messing with family structures. He had to have sex with the wife he inherited from his brother, but if he pulled out at the last moment every time so that he would not conceive a child with her, because he had inherited the wife from his older brother (levirate marriage) and any children that she bore by him would count as his older brother's heirs, and would thus be assigned a larger portion of the inheritence than if the wife died childless. So the message of the story wasn't about "not wasting your seed" or any such thing, but about respect for the dead, and not denying your brother the heir he was supposed to get (fun fact: the wife eventually poses as a prostitute, seduces the father, and gets the heir that way, so a certain degree of sexual immorality was encouraged in that story).
Similarly, I did research into the matter of the Levitical prohibitions against homosexuality in my bible law class in college, and found out that they also had to deal with family matters and trying to keep the Jews culturally distinct from other groups than any particular morals. It also prohibits "giving your seed to Molech," and Yahweh alone knows what that's supposed to mean :P
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