"Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings — millions — Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns.
For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen."
SURESH GUNDAPPA.
More of this piece of teaching is very much worth repeating here:
To impose celibacy means to pervert the sexual energy of man.
It is celibacy that has created homosexuality.
It is celibacy that has created sodomy. Perhaps you don’t understand the word “sodomy”; it is "making love" to animals.
Celibacy is as natural as somebody taking a vow that he will not allow his hair to grow.
What are you going to do? Is it within your hands?
Never enforce any celibacy on yourself.
Sex is not sin; repression is a sin.
Sex is very natural.....
You have not done anything to have it, it is inborn, it is part of your being.
Don’t condemn it, don’t judge it, don’t fear it, don’t fight with it.
SURESH GUNDAPPA.
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The extract above rightly refers to the fact that the nigh on impossible (not to mention unnecessary) feat of being totally celibate has destroyed millions of human beings.
Christianity at some point and for some reason that no longer really matters - has taken on board one big fat mistake - a belief in the relevance and possibility of celibacy.
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Another thing we owe to Thomas Szasz is that as a medical doctor and hence a kind of physiologist - he is one of the few amongst them to come quite close to pointing out the truth that celibacy is nearly impossible.
"Celibacy is as least as abnormal as homosexuality" Thomas Szasz.
One of the few authoritative figures in history to say so.
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