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Example sentences for: abstinence

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Abstinence can be even deadlier than monogamy.
But there are two kinds of pleasure: the pleasure of doing, and the pleasure of not doing; the pleasure of indulging, and the pleasure of abstinence.
The Social Health Association provides, through its own teachers, age-appropriate, abstinence based, in-school programming in three different areas: human growth and development; AIDS and STD education; and life skills (conflict resolution, peer pressure, decision-making).
'” And then she talks to them about the “ABCs” (“A” for abstinence, “B” for being faithful, “C” for condoms).
Sometimes she becomes visible to the wayward husband who is out late, drinking, and when he approaches her, she turns into an ugly horse-faced hag, scaring him into swearing abstinence forever.