Chastity is a positive discipline that involves the whole person and affects the whole person. As one philosopher explains, chastity “is a quality of one’s character, evident in all areas of life.” It is a discipline oriented toward “becoming a person with an outlook that allows one to selflessly appreciate good and attractive things—most especially bodies and the pleasures they afford—by keeping those goods ordered to the good of the whole person and his or her vocation to love.”7 If sex “is about persons being bodies together,”8 then chastity is about the right bodies being together at the
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