sexual restraint
Holding back desire
Sexual restraint is the practice of limiting or controlling one's sexual behavior or impulses.
The phrase may describe voluntary abstinence, delayed gratification, or simply not acting on every desire: He exercised sexual restraint during their early courtship.
The term often carries moral or religious connotations, suggesting virtue in self-control, though it can also describe practical caution.
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
- true love waitsVirginity-until-marriage movement
- modestyAbsence of vanity
purity · purity ring · self-control · temperance · virginity · denial · discipline · forbearance · willpower · monogamy · fidelity · vow · virtue · renunciation · ascetic · monk · nun · waiting
- chastitychastity, celibacy, virginity, abstinence, purity
- sexual ethicschastity, adultery, consent, faithfulness, abstinence
- Buddhist ethicsright action, moral conduct, ahimsa, precepts, merit
sexual restraintpromiscuity
Frequent casual sexual encounters
licentiousness · lechery · wantonness · lasciviousness · debauchery
sexual restraintsexual liberation
Freedom in intimate matters
sexual freedom · free love · uninhibitedness · hedonism · exhibitionism
sexual, sexier, sexiest, sexily, sexiness, sexuality, sexualize, sexualized, asexual