Chastity

The word chastity comes from Latin “castus”, whose opposite is “incastus”, from which comes the “incestueux” word.

Chastity consists of an ordered sexuality, controlled and which seeks initially the pleasure of the other.

Chastity should not be confused with the Continence, which means “abstention from sexual relationships”. Even, the abstinence can not be pure.

The Catechism of the Catholic church described and, in a certain direction, defines chastity thus: “Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality in the person and by there the interior unit of the man in his body and spiritual being. ”

Thus, chastity for an unmarried person is a sexuality expressed not actively (i.e. in term of genitality) but which is expressed through the friendship, the energy given in certain projects…

For a married person, chastity implies fidelity and reinforces an attention with the other through adapted gestures, a stronger listening of the other and an attention so that the only search for physical pleasure does not occult tenderness, the dialog and mutual listening.

In antiquity, the heretics denied the reality of the flesh of Jesus-Christ and acted consequently. However, Ignace d' Antioche is very clearly on top: to reach the body of God, i.e. Eucharistie, it is necessary to imitate the same chastity of Jesus.

Here an extract of the Letter to Philadelphian the: “Some wanted to mislead me according to the flesh, but one does not mislead the Spirit, which comes from God. Because I envisaged the division of some, it is to me pilot that for which I am connected that I did not know it flesh of man. It is the Spirit which announced it to me while saying: " Made nothing without the bishop, keep your flesh like the temple of God (cf 1Co 3,16 1Co 6,19), like the union, flee divisions, are the imitateurs of Jesus-Christ, as also is to him of his/her Father”.

Chastity can be defined by a whole of practices which include, without limiting itself to it, the continence. Thus, one speaks about chastity even in the marriage: periods of sexual Abstinence, Fidelity with the other.

The official position of the Église is to prohibit the use of the condoms to its faithful, like it prohibits any form of contraception. She preaches the Abstinence, the Chasteté, the marriage heterosexual and the Fidélité to prevent the transmission of the HIV.

summary of manuscripts on chastity

In order to carry out a good Christian life in the field of chastity, in the work of the Combat of the purity: with those which have twenty years (1876) the Église known as of to carry out its spiritual life well and encourages people to fill their day of good thing while being interested in the natural science, with the Botanique, to begin collections of rocks, to learn the Astronomie; on the other hand it was recommended to avoid reading books of literature and looking at voluptuous tables. Dr. Fournier, in his treaty of the diseases caused by the onanism, written in 1875, it used the work of Tissot as delivers reference. Simon-Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) published a book, a treaty on the onanism, which gives medical remedies to overcome temptations, which had a great success and sixty-three editions between 1760 and 1905, as one can note it in his work, it recommended, at the time, a multitude of councils: the sleep, to take wine before sleeping, amongst other things it recommends not to remain too a long time with the once awaked bed, and the exercise; it recommends the belt of chastity, but on the other hand it deplores the bleedings. Dr. Fournier quoted much Saint-François Dirty which recommended to the religious communities that it was necessary to sleep under monitoring, the hands apart from the covers and to abolish the private rooms. He also quoted “chastity is the lily of the virtues and, as of this life, it returns to us almost similar to the angels. Nothing is beautiful that by the purity and the purity of the men it is chastity.” He also said that any instinct qu one nourishes not ended up dying out. Like Tissot, Dr. Fournier recommended the Camphre as being recognized like a powerful anti-aphrodisiac of all times. It is written that any instinct that one does not nourish ends up dying out; also that the onanism is only one bad habits and qu" once regulated, the impulses very seldom arrived.

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