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  • Nova onania possumus omnes is not a new nor profound axiom, but it is well to remember it as a counterpoise to that other truly American saying of the late Mr. Samuel Patch, "Some things can be done as well as others."

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Nova onania possumus omnes is not a new nor profound axiom, but it is well to remember it as a counterpoise to that other truly American saying of the late Mr. Samuel Patch, "Some things can be done as well as others."

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The Polish Central St Martins graduate has combined photography, sculpture and film to present his idea of an onania machine onania being an archaic term for masturbation, which fits over the wearer's face and genitals.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • He shows the disfigurement (pictured) which befalls those who overuse the onania machine in the form of grotesque sculptures, collections of seeming bone, flesh and resin for which he used real human fat (allegedly purchased from a lipo suction clinic), which lie prone in surgical cubicles.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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