“ A chastity device won't put out the flames of burning flesh.The Ultimate Guide to ChastityRemoving the Iron Panties Sandra B. James
“ Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? John Green
“ Have you heard of the Children of Mae?”“The cult?” She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline—abstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarian… Colleen Chen
“ Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had n… Eliot Pattison
“ 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 Go… William Lane Craig
“ 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; innocence… John Stuart Mill
“ Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one. Rachael Allen
“ Ô, 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. Roman Payne
“ AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call ‘The Presumption of Sickness,’ i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until… Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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 gi… Jessica Valenti
“ 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… Jessica Valenti
“ Perhaps it’s 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 let’s be honest: if this were simp… Jessica Valenti
“ 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. Dorothy West
“ The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions. Girdhar Joshi
“ 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. René Crevel
“ 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't h… Jessica Valenti
“ 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 p… Anne Bronte
“ Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. Junot Diaz
