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I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Celibacy was a choice; asexual was just who he was.
Celibacy." Kingsley pronounced the word like a curse. It was a curse. "I thought you were a sadist. When did you become a masochist?
I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
For everyone, whatever his state
single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
I'm a recovering abstainer
I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's the point? Actually, just kidding, Thom Yorke and I **** all the time. Hehehe. Had you.
There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.
LADY BRACKNELL. [Rising and drawing herself up.] You must be quite aware that what you propose is out of the question. JACK. Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
I declare that I am a bachelor.
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.
You're not celibate, then?" I breathe.
Amusement lights up his eyes.
"No, Anastasia, I'm not celibate.
I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.
I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.
The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.
There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
I am a person who is not mated.
It's impossible," he snapped.
"Why?"
"Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.
I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.
You're thinking that you shouldn't have sex because you're celibate. So you just keep thinking about sex instead of enlightenment.
The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?"
"I may not be; you're the only one who can answer that.
If I wanted a life of chastity I'd live with my wife.
Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
I loaded Brady into the Celibacy Wagon
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.
You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.
[Christian Grey] didn't want me as a girlfriend. I turn on to my side. Idly, I wonder if perhaps he's celibate.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.
Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow.
fucking thirty-year-old virgin.
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.
The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.
I'm very monogamous.
Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it
Sexuality is a sacrament.
Continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.
At nineteen, one lives in the utter idolatry, therefore the extreme superstition, of sex. Monstrously exaggerated tales about sexual feats, which we listen to greedily, determine our expectations. The disappointments are correspondingly great.
No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.
A strong Protectionist, believes
In everything but Heaven.
For entertainment, dines, receives,
Unmarried, 57.
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.
wtf even is your sexuality
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Celibacy is the Tesla family secret, passed down through the
generations."
"Celibacy, passed down through the generations?"Victor asked dryly.
I flushed. "Its efficacy is not disproved by its imperfect application,"
I muttered.
Hell, at this rate she'd end up in the mental institution by the end of the year. Cause: Celibacy.
Fifteen years of celibacy because his bear refused to accept anyone but their mate.
Am I religious? I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Consternation." We are as celibate as fifty percent of the heterosexual Roman Catholic clergy.
You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together."
"I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it."
"Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.
I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.
I would say I'm humanly engaged.
I don't talk like that about men because I prefer celibacy to bullshit.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.
Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.
He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ...
Sexual satisfaction is a dissatisfaction to the spiritual life.
I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.
We are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.
Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.
libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
Single by choice, just not my choice.
UnSexed Virgin Dies En Route To Her Deflowering
'We were so close,' says surrogate
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.