XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles   
   From: HenHanna@devnull.tb   
      
   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?   
      
      
   ______________________________   
      
   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 ...   
      
      
   ______________________________   
      
   How an Abstinence Pledge in the '90s Shamed a ...   
      
   The New York Times  https://www.nytimes.com › 2021/04/06   
                — The Christian “purity” movement promoted a strict view of   
   abstinence before marriage. But two decades later, some followers are   
   grappling ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)