I find it amusing that the Brigadier is a lot pushier than the Hulk. You would think it'd be the other way around. :P
**CAN'T RESIST QUOTING ESSAY BECAUSE I WENT AND FETCHED IT**
Norris, Kathleen. "Celibate Passion." The Cloister Walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
"And it is precisely the skills of celibate friendship--fostering intimacy through letters, conversation, performing mundane tasks together (thus rendering them pleasurable), savoring the simplicity of a shared meal, or a walk together at dusk--that can help a marriage survive the rough spots. When you can't make love physically, you figure out other ways to do it." (118)
"Americans are remarkably tone-deaf when it comes to the expression of sexuality." (117)
"One reason I enjoy celibates is that they tend to value friendship very highly. And my friendships with celibate men, both gay and straight, give me some hope that men and women don't live in alternate universes." (119)
"As celibacy takes hold in a person, over the years...celibates become people who can radically affect those of us out 'in the world,' if only because they've learned how to listen without possessiveness, without imposing themselves. With someone who is practicing celibacy well, we may sense that we're being listened to in a refreshingly deep way. And this is the purpose of celibacy, not to attain some impossibly cerebral goal mistakenly conceived as 'holiness' but to make oneself available to others, body and soul." (121)
tl;dr: Basically, celibacy is a means of interacting with people without trying to possess them or itemize them. And it's also other things.
Sorry; I sometimes have lots of celibacy thoughts. And then I always want to share them. :-/ Darn it Catholic Church if you would just let women be ordained I'd be on that boat.
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Date: 2012-08-17 03:28 am (UTC)**CAN'T RESIST QUOTING ESSAY BECAUSE I WENT AND FETCHED IT**
Norris, Kathleen. "Celibate Passion." The Cloister Walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996.
"And it is precisely the skills of celibate friendship--fostering intimacy through letters, conversation, performing mundane tasks together (thus rendering them pleasurable), savoring the simplicity of a shared meal, or a walk together at dusk--that can help a marriage survive the rough spots. When you can't make love physically, you figure out other ways to do it." (118)
"Americans are remarkably tone-deaf when it comes to the expression of sexuality." (117)
"One reason I enjoy celibates is that they tend to value friendship very highly. And my friendships with celibate men, both gay and straight, give me some hope that men and women don't live in alternate universes." (119)
"As celibacy takes hold in a person, over the years...celibates become people who can radically affect those of us out 'in the world,' if only because they've learned how to listen without possessiveness, without imposing themselves. With someone who is practicing celibacy well, we may sense that we're being listened to in a refreshingly deep way. And this is the purpose of celibacy, not to attain some impossibly cerebral goal mistakenly conceived as 'holiness' but to make oneself available to others, body and soul." (121)
tl;dr: Basically, celibacy is a means of interacting with people without trying to possess them or itemize them. And it's also other things.
Sorry; I sometimes have lots of celibacy thoughts. And then I always want to share them. :-/ Darn it Catholic Church if you would just let women be ordained I'd be on that boat.