William Alton 25 Stonehouse Road, Strathaven, Lanarkshire Sir: Surely Mr
R. L. Travers (Letters, 13 financial gain, he refused to make a childless gesting that the sin of Onan lay in practising coitus interruptus as such. As I read the story, woman pregnant, i.e. he was guilty of practis- September) is being rather disingenuous in sug- Onan was punished because, for motives of ing contraception for selfish reasons and in this reason I don't think the story is as disregard of the wishes of the other party. For 'unethical' as Sir Denis Brogan would make it (Letters, 6 September).
Incidentally, may I comment on Mr Aiton's letter (13 September) that one does not have to be an expert on Montrose's campaigns to know that Kilsyth is in Scotland not Ireland, but— while we are at it—another Scots Covenanting army of the period did something very similar at Newry.
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