Keep Your Pants Off!
Let’s start the week with a short vocabulary lesson about NOT sex!
Abstinence
A voluntary restraint from some or all sexual activity.
Chastity
Having never participated in sexual activity and/or had sexual intercourse. Often used synonymously with virginity or virginal.
Celibacy
Being chaste as a condition of being unmarried. Commonly understood as part of a religious or spiritual vow that prohibits marriage.
.Nadine is a sexual health educator, a playwright, poet, burlesque performer, partner and parent living in Ottawa, Ontario. She enjoys candy, fashion and dreck television. She does not care for pants. Photo by Justin Van Leeuwen.
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