XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english
On 4/18/2024 12:34 PM, HenHanna wrote:
i suppose... the word [chastity] is still used today in Am.English
the same way C.S.Lewis used it here.
————————————— from C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)
People often misunderstand what psychology teaches about ‘repressions’. It teaches us that ‘repressed’ sex is dangerous.
But ‘repressed’ is here a technical term: it does not mean ‘suppressed’ in the sense of ‘denied’ or ‘resisted’.
A repressed desire or thought is one which has been thrust into the subconscious (usually at a very early age) and can now come before the
mind only in a disguised and unrecognisable form.
Repressed sexuality does not appear to the patient to be sexuality at
all. When an adolescent or an adult is engaged in resisting a conscious desire, he is not dealing with a repression nor is he in the least
danger of creating a repression.
On the contrary, those who are seriously attempting chastity are more conscious, and soon know a great deal more about their own sexuality
than anyone else.
They come to know their desires as Wellington knew Napoleon, or as Sherlock Holmes knew Moriarty; as a rat-catcher knows rats or a
plumber knows about leaky pipes.
Virtue ———even attempted virtue——— brings light; indulgence brings fog.
————————————— from C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)
obPuzzle -- Could he have used better analogy ... than ... comparing
sex to Moriarty, rats, and leaky pipes?
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Saving yourself for marriage – modern chastity movements
https://www.sister-mag.com
Mar 27, 2019 — Generally, it can be doubted
that being part of a chastity movement prevents young people from having
sexual intercourse before marriage. In ...
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How an Abstinence Pledge in the '90s Shamed a ...
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2021/04/06
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