chastity vows
Sexual abstinence promises
Chastity vows are formal promises to abstain from sexual activity, typically made as part of religious commitment.
Catholic priests, nuns, and monks take vows of chastity as part of their dedication to religious life.
Outside religious contexts, chastity vows appear in abstinence pledges, where young people promise to remain virgins until marriage: She took a chastity vow at her church's purity ceremony.
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- self-disciplineRegulating one's own behavior
- marriageFormal union between partners
- wedding nightFirst night as spouses
- monasticismCloistered religious living
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- Tertiariestertiaries, oblates, rule of life, formation process, constitutions
- chastitycelibacy, virginity, abstinence, purity, sexual abstinence
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, adultery, human sexuality, consent
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Frequent casual sexual encounters
sexual freedom · free love · sexual liberation · licentiousness · libertinism
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Pledges exchanged during ceremonies
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Pursuit of gratification
epicureanism · pleasure-seeking · self-gratification · worldly pleasures
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