It is a basic need for EVERYONE. God put it there so the population would increase. It is basic animal instinct.

Saying celibacy leads to perversion is like saying not doing drugs leads to drug addiction

Not everyone is a basic animal Maybe you are, but Im not and I know alot of others who arnt either.

Narcotics do not satisfy a basic need.

Are you celebate?

Do you think celibacy is necessary for a religious leader? Do you think celibacy adds to the pious nature of anyone who practices it?

If your are answering from a Christian perspective, please feel free to use Biblical scripture to explain your beliefs in this matter.

It has been physiologically proven that celibacy is unhealthy, both physically and mentally. It is therefore absurd to suggest that celibacy represents any kind of purity since it is clearly unhealthy and therefore detrimental. Nothing pure could possibly be detrimental.

The whole idea that sexual release has anything at all to do with spirituality is absurd. It's just another demented idea from that archaic book that people insist is the word of a supreme being. Surely the creator of human beings would realize that sexual frustration and orgasmic abstinence are unhealthy to the human condition and would therefore never expect it of anyone.

It is necessarily an impure condition in its own right. Unreleased sexual energy is detrimental to the physical body and the brain. We were created to be sexual machines. To deny the essence of our creation is to deny God, not worship God.

As a horny man who likes women I find celibacy an act of stupidity and against nature .

No But millions of other people have been. Some of the best people ever to live. Are they perverts?

It has been physiologically proven that celibacy is unhealthy, both physically and mentally. It is therefore absurd to suggest that celibacy represents any kind of purity since it is clearly unhealthy and therefore detrimental. Nothing pure could possibly be detrimental.

The whole idea that sexual release has anything at all to do with spirituality is absurd. It's just another demented idea from that archaic book that people insist is the word of a supreme being. Surely the creator of human beings would realize that sexual frustration and orgasmic abstinence are unhealthy to the human condition and would therefore never expect it of anyone.

It is necessarily an impure condition in its own right. Unreleased sexual energy is detrimental to the physical body and the brain. We were created to be sexual machines. To deny the essence of our creation is to deny God, not worship God.

Do you think celibacy is necessary for a religious leader? Do you think celibacy adds to the pious nature of anyone who practices it?

If your are answering from a Christian perspective, please feel free to use Biblical scripture to explain your beliefs in this matter.

Celibacy is "sexual release"

Why do you people keep wanting to drag others into sin with you?

I am not going to say that they are perverts. In my opinion, God must have intervined. I DO believe that it is an honorable way to live BUT most people cannot. Celebacy in MOST people leads to perversion. There are several examples of that with priests in the RCC.

Thats a crock and nothing has been proven

How many children were abused sexually because of this stupid act of celibacy ?. The history is a good witness .
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What about all of the non-celibant perverts??

"GOD" doesnt have to intervene to make someone celibant

Its called self-control

If you can devote you body to another human in marriage, can you do no less for your god? Or is your faith worthless? (not you personally)

Celibacy is "sexual release"

They have enough evidence to convince me.

I guess we all choose to decide what we accept as "proof".

Besides it's perfectly clear that we are seuxal beings. That part can't be denied. So I still hold that to deny the creation is to deny the creator. Hardly a pious thing to do.

Well, if you allow that celibate priest can masturbate then that's a different story.

Most people use the term 'celibacy' to me to refrain from any sexual activity whatsoever, and that would mean, no sexual release.

So yes, for most people celibacy = no sexual release.

Masturbation is out.