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She commissioned Correggio to decorate it in 1519 (his first work) with mischievous putti angels and a very pagan view of Chastity as symbolized by the goddess Diana.
Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc.
Our presidents and prime ministers have never had such problems, partly because they are almost always Christian Democrats, or at any rate very Catholic, at least in words, and partly because they are almost always ugly and old and shadowed by energetic wives who do not permit them any distractions, or they are widowers pledged to chastity."
For quoting a Vietnam-era line of graffiti, “Fighting for peace is like fxxxing (my cryptic spelling throughout) for chastity,” the witty columnist Molly Ivins was blasted in a long letter to the editor of The Progressive . In contrast, we have the story about the ten-year-old who, caving in to the nagging of his ever-suspicious grandmother, admits that his grandfather did indeed let slip a “dirty” word ( shmuck ) on their fishing trip, but won't quote it: “What I can tell you is that it rhymes with fxxx.”
This isn't sex as the irresistible life force that mocks and demolishes vows of chastity; it's sex as consumer good.