Correct Quote Source? (Sexual Ethics)

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Cannot find original source of the following: “Better to spill one’s seed in belly of a whore than waste it on the ground.”
Googled the quote, but it appears that others make the same mistake I did and assume it is in the Bible. Is it from one of the Fathers or Doctors of the Church?
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I cannot imagine any of the Doctors of the church making such a horrible remark!

It sounds to me something that would be said to try to excuse fornicating with a prostitute!
 
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I believe it was St. Thomas Aquinas who said that. Unfortuantly I don’t have anything to back the up. It was something a T.O.R. priest was explaining, and i think he said it was Aquinas.

The comment sounds pretty harsh, but would be more correctly discribed as biologically ignorant. In those times they believed that the man’s sperm basically did all the work. So it was better for there to be a chance of procreation than to “spill the seed on the ground.”

I hope someone can explain this slightly better than I did, and find the source. Again correct me if I’m wrong please.
 
I’m gonna go ahead and recant my last post. Although I know St. Aquanis believed that rape was less serious a sin than masturbation, I can’t find anything that would attribute that particular quote to him.

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Just though I’d add my own two sense…to my knowledge, this is not a quote from anyone of note, just a summation of the position taken in Genesis 38 regarding the sin of Onan. This, or rather the converse of it (better on the ground than in the belly of a whore) is something that is trotted out by a lot of Protestants to explain their acceptance of contraception, usually attributing it to one Evangelist or another (usually St. Paul, being the most prolific writer). Rest assured that it’s not in the Bible, and I’m pretty certain that it’s not from patristic writing either.
 
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