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684.  Abstinence Makes The Church Grow Fondlers.  (Religion & Abstinence & Children & Abuse & Paedophile & Catholic)  T-shirts and bumper stickers

 

 

41,294.  Refrain tonight;

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence; the next more easy;

For use almost can change the stamp of nature.  William Shakespeare, Hamlet III iv 166-169, Hamlet to Mother

 

 

41,295.  Sexual abstinence ... is bullshit.  Penn & Teller, Bullshit: Abstinence s4e10

 

41,296.  In the last ten years federal and local law makers have allocated one billion dollars to abstinence-only programs.  ibid.

 

41,297.  Despite the government’s best efforts to ram this abstinence down our throats there are some people out there who won’t swallow.  ibid.

 

41,298.  There are health benefits to masturbate ... Masturbation is great fun and medically magical.  (Abstinence & Masturbation)  ibid.

 

 

41,299.  To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.  (Abstinence & Moderation)  St Augustine

 

 

41,300.  Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.  (Abstinence & Moderation & Vice)  Samuel Butler

 

 

41,301.  Join me in Olympic Heroes for Abstinence.  The best sex is no sex.  (Abstinence & Sex)  Kurt Angle

 

 

41,302.  I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.  Dick Cavett

 

 

41,303.  Abstinence is a perversion.  Bill Maher

 

 

41,309.  Use, do not abuse ... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.  (Abuse & Abstinence & Excess)  Voltaire

 

 

119,245.  Sex, freedom, whisky sours: which one shall I give up first, Lizzy?  (Gangs UK: Birmingham & Abstinence)  Peaky Blinders s4e1: The Noose, Tommy

 

 

74,657.  The Syrians introduced the monastic life to the West.  They were the great traders of the ancient world.  (Christianity & Sex & Syria & Trade & Abstinence)  Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Sex and the Church I: From Pleasure to Sin, BBC 2015