Is abstinence a good or bad thing???

Question

Is abstinence a good or bad thing???

Answer 1

Good if you're single. Bad if you're married =)

Answer 2

"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, is excellent for human relationships.

"Kundalini West," Ann Ree Colton, frames your question and answers it.

"Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon," O. M. Aivanhov, also good.

Answer 3

Well, if everyone practiced it all the time the human race would die off, unless you want everyone to get artificially inseminated, but then you'd still have to m********e...LOL

I believe that, like anything else, it isn't good or bad.  It just is.  It can be a good solution for appropriate circumstanses.  But I don't really think it's good for anyone to practice it for their entire lives or anything like that.  I think as humans we are sexual beings and we can't go through life pretending like that part of us doesn't exist.

Answer 4

Depends on the individual.

Me, I waited until I was 22, and should have waited longer.

But like most such things, it only works if you actually believe in it enough to DO it.

One guy said "abstinence doesn't prevent teen pregnancy."  Well, no, it does IF they practice it.  It's the "abstinence only education" that doesn't prevent it.

But if you honestly do practice it, then it becomes really d**n hard to actually GET (or get anyone) pregnant.  Barring divine visitations - which I don't believe in anyway - or sexual assault.

Personally, I believe there's room to teach both.  TEACH safe s*x... just include the fact that that whole peer-pressure "Kids are GONNA do it... you MUST do it... there's something WRONG with you if you don't do it..." is a load of c**p.

Answer 5

both - good for singles, bad for married couples:-)

Answer 6

It is a great thing.  Especially depending on your age.  Its nice that people that wait can distinguish s*x being special other than a natrual needed feeling,casually sleeping with random people.  I waited until I was 22.  My friends married early (15-21) and had children early.  I'm so glad that I waited.  Plus there are so many diseases out there.

Answer 7

It's totally a personal choice as long as one remembers that with choices come responsibilities.

If you don't take responsibility and end out losing your youth to parenthood or dying of a preventable disease, well, that's pretty bad! Especially since that's all fairly easy to avoid today.

Answer 8

I agree with Bryce and the others.  It completely depends on the individual.  Outside of personal moral values, it is a matter of cause and effect, action and consequences.  If a person is mature enough to manage and maintain themselves while undertaking any particular action (drinking, s*x, smoking, extreme sports, etc.), then it should matter to that individual.  If they cannot manage themselves, then it becomes a larger problem as the people around them may be dragged into a situation outside of their creating.  For an individual that cannot maintain themselves, abstinence my be a good choice.  but it is still a choice they must make themselves.  parents and authority figures can influence, but they cannot make the decision for their child or for anyone else.  Is abstinence good or bad?  It is neither, it is only abstinence.  Just like the television.  It is neither good nor bad, merely a tool.

Answer 9

Doesn't prevent teen pregnancy and is bad for the prostate.

Answer 10

Depends on your values.

Answer 11

I think that abstinence is good or it might be bad, it depends on the person who wonders about it.

But, if you feel you need to find some kind of relief from it, there is always the Bathroom, and your Two hands to do it.

Answer 12

Depends on the reason for the abstinence. Is it a harmful thing you are abstaining from? Then its a good thing.

But is it abstinence for the sake of sacrifice to cleanse oneself? A bad thing, why deny yourself something you want?

Answer 13

It is a good thing for someone who wants to abstinent.