(1) It proved cancer patients to be more dependent, anxious, aggressive, health-conscious, family-bound and antisexual.
(2) These sociosexual attitudes, and the sense of shame involved, are linked to very old social and religious antisexual traditions.
(3) In America, Tissot's antisexual health-reform ideas were transmitted by Graham to Kellogg and Comstock.
(4) Antisexual primary Christian traditions, which consist of, as a rule, a mixture of suppression, silencing, intimidation, and threat, still have sufficiently extensive sociopsychological consequences to disrupt the psychosexual equilibrium of an individual.
Celibacy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.
Example Sentences:
(1) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(2) A Health Ministry spokesman answers that the campaign has, in fact, stressed that use of condoms for "safe sex" does not provide complete protection but, since the only 100% sure protection, celibacy, is completely impractical, even partial protection is better than none.
(3) He has come to terms with his own celibacy ("An involuntary decision!"
(4) Celibacy, he says, has enriched his relationship with women.
(5) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
(6) She felt that my celibacy was a problem, when I saw it as a strength.
(7) Clerical celibacy and civil rights restrictions on homosexuals are both silly, and it shouldn’t matter to anyone at all if it turned out that McDonnell and the pastor were doing trial prep via a two-man dildo ouroboros.
(8) Efforts at intervention have ranged from preventing pregnancy by encouraging celibacy to trying to enhance the options available to those who are already parents.
(9) In practice at least half of the House of Bishops ignore the guidelines and do not ask clergy questions about celibacy, and many of them consciously put in place people in civil partnerships with the partner present and acknowledged as a partner.
(10) The celibacy and fertility rates of 186 patients with major affective disorders were analysed as a function of the presence or absence of histories of mood congruent delusions or suicidal behaviour in the depressive phases of the disease.
(11) So she chose celibacy and became a virdzina (virgin in the Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croat).
(12) He has now effectively admitted he breached the church's strict rules on celibacy and its bar on homosexuality since he became a priest – and during his 10 years as a cardinal.
(13) So did the church act because it was shocked by the claims against the cardinal or were they were angry he had broken ranks on celibacy?
(14) As well as calling on the church to show "real repentance for the lack of welcome and acceptance extended to homosexual people in the past", the report also urges it to think about whether it is reasonable to allow lay people to be in sexually active same-sex relationships while requiring celibacy from its clergy and bishops, saying: "In the facilitated discussions it will be important to reflect on the extent to which the laity and the clergy should continue to observe such different disciplines."
(15) As a cure for AIDS remains out of sight, condom use, celibacy and extensive health education remain the immediate sole weapons for controlling HIV infection.
(16) Think about how our church’s rules – enforced celibacy, lack of transparency, secretive processes, no accountability to the people in the pews – contributed to this crisis in our church.
(17) He meditates, is a vegetarian, an advocate of tantric sex and and has gone through long periods of celibacy.
(18) Pietro Parolin, an Italian archbishop, has raised eyebrows by acknowledging that "modifications" to the law of priestly celibacy might be possible under Francis's reform agenda.
(19) At the end, a direct question was posed: "Is it true that the cardinal has broken his vow of celibacy?"
(20) "Celibacy is fine as a vocation, if chosen, but it is manifestly cruel to ban a human being from physical intimacy simply because they are gay."