Celibacy
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Celibacy is the avoidance of all forms of sexual intimacy, often for religious reasons.
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- Celibacy is not merely unknown to Islam, it is unintelligible.
- Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958), ch. 5
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), ch. 26