There's a fundamental difference between happening to be celibate and accepting one's celibacy. When you only happen to be celibate, you are still looking and waiting, tentative about life because you are not living the way you wish to be living.
Until a short while ago, most Western religions considered sex a "problem," stamping it out through sometimes torturous and extreme means; but today, at least in the secular world, the tables have turned. Celibacy has become the "problem." Now, the fear of not having sex is a driving force in all our lives. Young teenagers write to advice columnists, "I'm not having sex. What's wrong with me?" while grownups take pills, go to therapists, attend classes, read books and spend billions of dollars a year, in an effort to amplify their sexual lives and prevent the merest possibility of going a week without having sex.
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