Chastity

Chastity refers to the sexual behavior of a man or woman acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of a culture, civilization or religion. In the Western world, the term has become closely associated (and is often used interchangeably) with sexual abstinence, especially before marriage. However, the term remains applicable to persons in all states, single or married, clerical or lay, and has implications beyond sexual temperance.

Read more about Chastity:  Etymology, In Abrahamic Religions, In Eastern Religions

Famous quotes containing the word chastity:

    Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The example of Alexander’s chastity has not made so many continent as that is his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)