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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer

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A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens belief that they own their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! – C.S. Lewis

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. – G. K. Chesterton

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