Chastity

Chastity is a pure state of the human body and mind -- especially pursued for religious or other ethical reasons, as by virtuous sexual abstience in the Judeo-christian usually referred to in modern speech.

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The word derives, via the French chastet?, from the Latin castitas, which is the abstract of castus (the root of chaste), which originally meant a 'pure' state of conformity with the pagan religion of Rome, rather the practical counterpart of a pious (Latin pius) state of mind, in no way limited to the sexual sphere.

Chastity related Images and Photos (experimental)

Up the Chastity Belt

The Allegory of Chastity

Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity c.1954