#chastity

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#perversion #sex #authority

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ↗

— Anatole France

#sex #sexuality

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. ↗

— George Santayana

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The word 'no' is important for maintaining one's chastity, but 'porno' is indispensable. I always keep a dirty magazine tucked in my pants to ward off sexual pressure. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust. ↗

— Marina Warner

#lust #purity #religion #education

Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#lyrics #music #sex #suicide #the-virgin-suicides

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. ↗

— George Chapman

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