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Total sexual abstention
Name(s):
Celibacy
Claim
The conscious decision not to marry, or, since the turn of the century, not to engage in sexual relationships, denies future generations of an important dimension of the genetic pool.
Broader
Deprivation
Privation
Privación
Narrower
Enforced celibacy
Reduces
Unsafe sex
Inadequacy of male contraceptive methods
Heterosexual infection of women with AIDS
This problem is a member of 15 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Living alone
[in 9 loops]
Unconsummated marriage
[in 7 loops]
Aggravated by
Fear of intimacy
Human sexual disorders
Fear of sexual intercourse
Difficulty finding marriage partner
Inadequacy of contraceptive methods
Reduced by
Dependence on sex
Value(s)
Abstention
Reference(s)
Ford, J Massingberd: Trilogy on Wisdom and Celibacy
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems