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Article: Reconsidering the value of chastity.(LETTERS)(FORUM)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2004
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sex is everywhere. It's all over television, in our magazines, saturating our music and displayed by our dress. It is assumed we will have sex outside marriage, and when we do not we find ourselves under extreme pressure.
If we give in, we often find our reputations destroyed. On one hand, we are told to embrace freedom through sexual liberation. On the other hand, we hear a voice whispering that we should embrace the old-fashioned virtue of chastity.
Yet is chastity an old-fashioned virtue that no longer has a place in our lives? How can we possibly revive the virtue of chastity in our sex-soaked society?
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