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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcende...

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... You must always remember... Whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

I love the forest.

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried a...

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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interp...

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Marina WarnerAlone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many o...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Until that day at the dress department Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfor...

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The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of ...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not ...

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