Talk:Sin of the apes

The phrase "sin of the apes" is an antiquated synonym for "masturbation".

The historic use of this expression has for example been documented in the following book:

Felix Brynk (translated by David Berger, revised by R. Stuart)

Circumcision in Man and Woman

American Ethnological Press (New York, 1934)

AMS Press (1974)

Online available at:

http://male-initiation.net/anthropology/bryk/bryk_eng4.html

A more recent re-print of this book might have been published by:

University Press of the Pacific

(Honolulu 2001)

ISBN 0-89875-326-0