Mal ,'War Stories'
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Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine? How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?
Actually, married couples deciding to abstain from sex is praiseworthy in Catholicism; I'm pretty sure that a couple of saints were married but abstinent.
Not saints, but Abelard and Heloise. Of course, Heloise didn't want to be celibate, but Abelard forced it.
Margery Kempe made her husband be celibate for a while too.
Um, didn't Heloise' uncle cut off Abelard's penis to enforce the celibacy?
Hmm, according to Wikipedia, well after the celibacy was broken.
Gonads, not the tool o' love itself.
Gonads, not the tool o' love itself.
That's right! Castration is generally not accompanied by dick amputation.
Though in certain Malaysian countries it is not uncommon for women to cut off the johnsons of their cheating husbands and throw it to the pigs.
IIRC, Abelard and Heloise started of having an affair. She was his student. Her uncle (and guardian) found out and sent her away to a convent. They continued the affair. She got knocked up, had the baby, then they married secretly.
After they married, the uncle castrated Abelard as a revenge sort of thing because he thought they weren't married or possibly that Abelard left Heloise (which he didn't).
The celibacy was forced at that point, but even beyond the physical intimacy, Abelard had some sort of change of heart due to the castration and thought he should be pure of mind and spirit which meant cutting Heloise completely out of his life. (This was a time when scholars and priests thought that just being near women would taint them and keep them from achieving intellectual and spiritual enlightenment.)
She tried to have a relationship with him and craved emotional intimacy, but he refused her.
She tried to have a relationship with him and craved emotional intimacy, but he refused her.
Some of her letters to him at this point are pretty interesting in a "fuck you, you goddamn quitter wimp!" way.
Some of her letters to him at this point are pretty interesting in a "fuck you, you goddamn quitter wimp!" way.
Yes they are! I read their letters about a year ago and it was pretty fascinating.
certain Malaysian countries
Such as, um, Malaysia?
(runs away)