Chastity
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
chastity · unchastity
in the texts
Consolation to Helvia
Sexual and moral purity, named as Helvia's greatest ornament and glory, contrasted with the vices of other women.
Unchastity, the greatest evil of the age, has not numbered you among the many;
Your one ornament, the kind of beauty that no age can wither, your greatest glory, was held to be chastity.
Letters to Lucilius
The virtue of sexual purity or fidelity
Teach me what chastity is, and how great a good is in it, whether it is placed in the body or in the mind.
De Cultu Feminarum
Sexual and moral purity, invoked as the standard against ornamental self-display
against the other, of prostitution—so that from this very point you may foresee, handmaid of God, what of these things suits your discipline, seeing that you are reckoned from different institutions, namely, of humility and of chastity.
Law in a Free State
The value placed on sexual restraint, analysed and partly deconstructed as actually rooted in a desire for monopoly of affection rather than a horror of impurity as such.
At all events the question cannot be dismissed without fair examination.
That this monogamic yearning for a monopoly of affection is the true cause of what is usually set down to a horror of unchastity, is made even still more apparent when we reflect that jealousy is as strong a passion before as after union;