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Onan's crime was greed not lust. He did not want to provide for Tamar or her potential children.
According to Wikipedia, Biblical scholars essentially agree with you, to the point
which is pretty cool especially given my prior belief that most people agreed it was about lust. Wikipedia does also say that some Christian denominations have interpreted the sin to be as lust, though.
And Catholicism, at least, still doesn't like the ejaculation without procreation:
(number 54 and 55 in a Pope Pius XI encyclical)
(I never thought I'd be discussing religion on programming.dev lol)