chastity

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Staying away from sexual life; avoiding from sexual intercourse with moral senses; the unmarried life

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1. The condition or quality of being chaste, pure or virginal.

2. Abstention from sexual activity, usually meaning a state of celibacy or virginity.

Quotes:

(1) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963): ' Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.'

(2) Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915): ' Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

(3) Anatole France (1844-1924): ' Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.'

(4) From Encyclopedia of Graffiti Robert Reisner & Lorraine Wechsler (1974):
-- ' Chaste makes waste.'
-- ' Chastity is its own punishment.'
-- ' Virtue can hurt you.'

(5) Humorously defined by Louis J. Safian in An Irreverent Dictionary of Love and Marriage (1966) as: ' The purity of a woman who has never been tempted.'

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