Chastity, not the fetishized condition written about by sexual deviants and their equally deviant controllers, but a state where one chooses to live without any form of sexual intimacy, is what I’m talking about?m.
How many sexual “experiences” can you have, in both numbers and variety? What do they mean? Most likely., nothing, after the fluids have been expended and the climaxes have been reached. The exception is an ovum being fertilized and a child conceived.
There is less a philosophy around sex than an ideology. The dogma of orgasm reigns. Sex becomes a mere autonomic pursuit.
But what if you looked upon your fellow human beings as persons who exist not as a sexual partner or potential sexual partner?
Chastity may exist as the touchstone to true intimacy. That would require that we reject the sexualized culture of our time.
I don’t know. Maybe I should be the last person to talk about this.
Dispatches From Dystopia 
Sex is all out there and right in your face anymore, and most of it pretty harsh. There’s no mystery to it. I think younger people have gotten a raw deal in the modern hook-up culture and the easily accessibility of porn. So many will never know true intimacy. I think it takes getting to a certain age before one realizes sex is not the be all and end all. And I don’t know if it’s because one has gained wisdom or it’s just the aging body relaying to the mind that sex just ain’t that important anymore. I think it’s especially true for women—when they go through menopause, nature tells them they can no longer bear children, so the desire for it wanes, and eventually ceases. And then there are the physical changes that make sex painful even if they desired it.
Thanks for your perspective. I’m thinking about writing two other pieces on poverty and obedience, the two other vows of the Catholic religious and how they compare to the expectations of modern times.