31 quotes found
“Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?”
“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 fideli...”
“Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.”
“Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.”
“Perhaps its 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 lets be honest: if this were sim...”
“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.”
“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”
“As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article Students of Virginity, on abstinence clubs at Ivy League colleges, There were a WHOLE LOTTA ...”
“If being premenstrual is innocence, 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 g...”
“, 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.”
“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innoce...”
“In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further promotes the notion that it's women's morality that's on the line when it comes to sex, men just can'...”
“A chastity device won't put out the flames of burning flesh.The Ultimate Guide to ChastityRemoving the Iron Panties”
“First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, you should practice abstinence from all sexual activity. I know this is difficult, but really what...”
“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.”
“Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.”
“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.”
