abstinence

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance _ that is, moderation _ is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent__ authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself _ which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.

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Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.

_, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call __he Presumption of Sickness,_ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative.

If being premenstrual is __nnocence,_ does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of the matter: These concerns aren't about lost innocence; they're about lost girlhood. The virginity movement doesn't want women to be adults. Despite the movement's protestations about how this focus on innocence or preserving virginity is just a way of protecting girls, the truth is, it isn't a way to desexualize them. It simply positions their sexuality as __ood__ worth talking about, protecting, and valuing__nd women's sexuality, adult sexuality, as bad and wrong. The (perhaps) unintended consequences of this focus is that girl's sexuality is sexualized and fetishized even further.

As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article __tudents of Virginity,_ on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, __here were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to start a club about it, for pete__ sake.

I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

Perhaps it__ true that in our sex-saturated culture it does take a certain amount of self-discipline to resist having sex, but restraint does not equal morality. And let__ be honest: if this were simply about resisting peer pressure and being strong, then the women who have sex because they actively want to _ as appalling as that idea might be to those who advocate abstinence _ wouldn__ be scorned. Because the __trength_ involved in these women__ choice would be about doing what they want despite pressure to the contrary, not about resisting the sex act itself.

Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.

Have you heard of the Children of Mae?___he cult?_ She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline__bstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarianism__retty much anything fun was prohibited. They had never come to Vesper__ house because her father was a butcher and probably pretty low on their list of possible converts.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.