Chastity

Scham,/. shame modesty, chastity pudenda. Scham-. pudic. -bein, n. pubis, schamen, v.r. be ashamed. 

Shine, R., Olsson, M.M. and Mason, R.T. (2000b) Chastity belts in garter snakes the functional significance of mating plugs. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 70, 377-390. 

Timoteo swore an oath of chastity Zorzi was a lecher. 

Though Paracelsus scorned religious authority, once describing Martin Luther and the Pope as two whores discussing chastity, he remained a Roman Catholic, if a somewhat unorthodox one. He supported the Church on the question of Christian unity and upheld much of Catholic dogma. He differed from the Church on several points, however. For example, he maintained that both heaven and... 

Laurinda Dixon, Perilous Chastity Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine (Ithaca, NY, 1995) King, Hippocrates Woman, ch. lo Nancy Siraisi, Girolamo Cardano and the Art of Medical Narrative , Journal of the History of Ideas, 52 (1991), 581-602. On medical cases in a legal context see esp. Pomata, Contractinga Cure. 

Dixon, Laurinda, Perilous Chastity Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine hla3.c2c, NY, 1995). 

Cheryl, Cynthia, Carmen, and Chastity shot the targets above at Girl Scout camp. Match each target with the proper description. 

I know and love madonna Alessa, and have great respect for her sagacity and discretion. I dragged Violetta s hairbrush twice over my tangled mop, gave up, and stuffed it all inside my bonnet. Lead the way, Sister Chastity. ... 

No. Chastity and frequent self-flagellation protect me. The Maestro wants your opinion on a case. ... 

When I limped into the atelier, the Maestro was seated by the fireplace. To my amazement, the visitor in the green chair opposite was a nun. I blinked twice before I recognized Violetta, alias Sister Chastity, and remembered that she and I had a date to call on Bianca Orseolo. 

So now you will go on to Ca Tirali Sister Chastity inquired as we cuddled once more in the privacy of thefelze. 

Mary again wrote to Cranstoun but, incredibly, gave the letter to another servant to post. This servant, aware of the situation, handed the letter to the chemist who had examined the powder. Mr Blandy duly died, and on the same day Mary dug a deeper hole for herself by offering first one servant and then the cook money to go abroad with her. They both refused. She was arrested, tried, convicted of murder, and executed. Despite appearing to be a pleasant young woman, an emblem of chastity and virtue , she was certainly aware of her part in the crime, which was clear from letters found in Cranstoun s possession when he died. ... 

WATER OF CHASTITY — An Artificial Water, made use of by persons who are anxious to safeguard chastity. The receipt may be found in the work of Adrian Mynsicht, p. 286. 

Chastity love charm combined with Rosemary as perfume to 58... 

Here Paracelsus expands on his notion that genuine self-imposed chastity can come only with castration, since lust has the inevitable effect of generating seed. A self-professed virgin is not really such unless he has eliminated the very source of his own seed. From this Paracelsus arrives at a truly extraordinary conclusion it is for the convenience of enacting their own self-mutilation that God has blessed men with external genitalia. Thus women, who have not the benefit of this option, must be placed under the rulership of men. To conclude this line of reasoning, men have a simple choice—either they may marry, in which case their semen is continually exhausted and used up properly, to produce ensouled children, or they should eliminate the production of further useless seed by self-castration. To do otherwise is to become the involuntary begetter of homunculi. 

A trade-off between sex and death sounds, on the face of it, the worst possibility in the worst of all possible worlds. Is chastity the price of a long life Does this confirm Aristotle s gloomy dictum, that each act of sex has a direct life-shortening effect Quite the contrary, in fact. The trade-off frees us from a tyrant the belief that senescence is inevitable. Sex is not tied directly to lifespan, unless we have a heart condition. The two are linked because, as a species, the resources that our genes directed at reproduction, over evolutionary time, were subtracted from our investment in maintenance. After a million years of human evolution, we have found a stable balance but this balance can, in principle, be shifted. The working assumption has always been that we must make the best of limited resources, invested over a probable lifespan in the wild. Neither of these conditions — limited resources or probable mortality in the wild from predation, starvation, infection and accident — is the same now as it was for our first human ancestors. 

Well before the corpse becomes a vehicle for poisons, it becomes the play s central focus and object of desire. This desire takes on an explicitly oral vocabulary after the Lady s death, even Govianus, her upright and virtuous lover, describes her as a delicious treasure of mankind (Ill.i.zqq), and tells her corpse I will kiss thee, I After death s marble lip (III.i.Z48-5i). This implicit eroticization of the corpse becomes more insistent with the Tyrant s even bolder approach to the tomb. Death nor the marble prison my love sleeps in I Shall keep her body locked up from mine arms, he proclaims I must not be so cozened (IV.ii. 48 ). In fact, far from cozening, death seems to facilitate the Tyrant s lust. In a figurative version of the rape that the Lady s willful chastity and subsequent suicide prevented him from accomplishing, he breaks into her tomb and robs it of her body. Unlike the Lady, moreover, the stone can be interpreted as a willing, even desirous, recipient of the Tyrant s affections The monument woos me, he muses I must run and kiss it (IV.iii.9). 

Perhaps this drug, which goes unnamed, should be dubbed chastity-in-idleness ... 

When Anno 1579, I staid at Basil, a certain married man (it was that brazen bearded Apothecary that dwelt in the Apothecaries shop) he fearing that his stopple was too weak to drive forth his wifes chastity the first night, consulted one of the chief Physicians, who was most famous, that he might have some stifte prevalent Medicament, whereby he might the sooner dispatch his journey. 

Occasionally, Lewis does hit the mark. Marvin s first two Darlin s are Cynthia and Gratia. Jean, the woman who becomes his wife in Chapter 92, witnesses her mother s early death from a sudden stroke on the same day she learns that her brother was killed in the war. Although that chapter (10) is highly contrived, it likens neon to a cold, indifferent and amoral universe— But all the time the noble gas called neon remained unmoved. Like some quiet-eyed chemist looking down the future, it heard no explosion. And Jean, emotionally numbed, vows chastity in Chapter 18 (Argon) and will allow no man to woo her— She would be ready for them, as inert as a nun. ... 

Tn the initiatory life Hope corresponds to the vow of Chastity (which in Christian marriage is n ot sexual abstinence). The vow of Chastity is the first postu late and it is th is wh ich allows Man to free himself from the servitude of the senses as an ordinary human couple can perpetuate the forms of the species in a natural and legitimate manner without mutual decline or deprav ity. 

As late as 1897, the U. S. Government granted a patent—number 587,994—to one Michael McCormick of San Francisco, for a male chastity belt for fathers to put on their adolescent sons to prevent masturbation. (Playboy, Dec., 1967, P- 79-)... 

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