Obserwator wrote:I meanSo — come back with some facts next time …
Ekhem Maria Teresa as in Mother Teresa who was also named Maria Teresa :) :)
-surely you heard about her ?
Of course you have chosen to ignore other examples I posted.
Like I said earlier celibacy is one of many conditions that humans can choose to follow really.
Quite normal too and certainly not dysfunctional.
Celibacy and lack of sex was practiced by monks, priests, wise men and all sorts of people during human history.Only with the western consumer culture has come and idea that somehow this was wrong.
Voluntary celibacy practiced as a religious devotion is an act of will, not an abnormality! What we are talking about here is sexual pathology, not abstinence. And as for your other examples:
Obserwator wrote:… Pope, Maria Teresa, Immanuel Kant, even Poland had a king Boleslaw Wstydliwy(Chaste, Shy), Elizabeth I …
Both the Pope and
Mother Teresa have religious vocations that make an assessment of their sexuality impossible, so these examples are moot.
According to a Google search, the reason King Boleslaw’s marriage was never consummated because his wife, Kinga, was extremely pious and refused to fulfill her marital duties. Boleslaw tried to convince her to change her mind, but when she did not accept, he reluctantly accepted the situation. Since his religious convictions forbade him to take a mistress, he received the nick name "the Chaste" or "the Shy". This is hardly an example of voluntary chastity.
Immanuel Kant was indeed too devoted to philosophy to be sexually active and his tortured writings reflects this. This is perhaps what lead Spengler to remark: “Nothing is less sun-lit than the doctrines of Kant.” Kant is no more sexually normal than his philosophical opposite number, the Marquis de Sade
Elizabeth I was probably a hermaphrodite (or in some other way sexually mal-formed) and so normal sexuality was impossible for her.