Have you ever gone on a long period of celibacy? Being a virgin and not getting any doesn't count. Also, lots of religions (and in some hard-core yoga books too), people are advised not to have lots of sex because it is distracting? it dilutes your being? (I can't remember). What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of celibacy?
Yeah, I've been ceilbate by choice for about 1 year - 95% by choice (I would have given up my celibacy for a couple choice girls if the oppurtunity had arisen). Recently I have decided I want to start having sex again but haven't capitalized on it yet.
Being a virgin doesn't count because it is usually unintentional celibacy...the virgin usually hasn't chosen to continue being one.
I'm on a 6 month trip right now. I don't see my boy again until March. it's been 2.5 months. I'm completeley dieing. It's getting a little easier. Maybe I'm weak, but I'd never freely deside to be celibate for this long, I can deal with it out of circumstance, but it's making me a tad irritable to be completley honest.
I haven't had sex in almost a year, this isn't really by choice just haven't found another girlfriend yet. I'm content without having sex though. Masturbation is always fun.
But lots of people would prefer NOT to be virgins, but just remain so anyways because of whatever reason they have for not having sex. So that is more of an unintentional celibacy.
That's another thing: do you think true celibacy includes masturbation or not? Like if you were a monk who'd taken a vow of celibacy--do you think wanking would be cheating? Is celibacy just staying away from others' sexual advances and not seeking it out in others, or is it a complete mind-body-spirit aversion?
i haven't been celibate, my ex was a monk for almost 10 years so he was celibate all that time. they did meditations that we're very powerful and they used their sexual energy for that.
hehehe, i have done it, i once decided that i'm done with meaningless fuck buddies and one night stands, since i had never had sex with someone i had actually cared about. and i decided that next time it has to be more than that. And it took me 13 months before i found a good reason to have sex again.
Cool. Did any of the monks have problems with it, or were they all able to use their sexual energy like that? Not to be too personal or anything, but why did your ex quit?
