Ideologically, why don't more people embrace it? Celibacy was generally understood quite widely as virtuous during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, even into the Modern Age. It shows restraint, discipline, and a content attitude. What happened to make it seem less respectable, undesirable, or even frowned upon by so many people ever since around the 20th century?

>>17826011 (OP)
The problem is that you rape my mind and abuse, harass, terrorize, threaten etc me for thinking about women, that's what you mean by "celibacy: "not thinking about women" whereas to a rational real person it would mean "not having sex", but you're a retarded disgusting tranny who feels entitles to the literal contents of my mind, you think you should be allowed to rape my mind every second of every day and abuse me for anything I think then you say this retarded shit about "celibacy" when the closest thing to a violation of celibacy that I experience is when I get sexually abused by your retarded disgusting rat ogre tranny self-inserts" who you abuse me through for thinking about women because you're a retarded disgusting sadistic tranny faggot

>>17826011 (OP)
People want to have sex. Also, while it was promoted as a virtue, and definitely a very important one, there were tons of whores back then! Even Aquinas said it was a necessary evil and the Pope had to command the whores of Rome to stop killing their children.
>Thus, Augustine says that a whore acts in the world as the bilge in a ship or the sewer in a palace: "Remove the sewer, and you will fill the palace with a stench." Similarly, concerning the bilge, he says: "Take away whores from the world, and you will fill it with sodomy." [Book 4, Chapter 14]
>The Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome was founded by Pope Innocent III because women were throwing their infants into the Tiber river.

>>17826011 (OP)
Vountarily and for a good cause.

Involuntary celibacy was never seen as virtuous

>>17826011 (OP)
The highest human lifestyle is holy marriage

>>17826011 (OP)
No thanks, I prefer to fornicate and occasionally indulge in homosexual activity

>>17826011 (OP)
>Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, even into the Modern Age
>It shows restraint, discipline, and a content attitude.
Virtues back then (and I would hope today as well) weren't understood as discrete attributes that you collect one after another. They were tools to a certain balance and a certain progress - in those particular periods that would be holiness. It is once you lose track of the final goal and start looking for value in these attributes and practices themselves that everything starts falling apart. All the discipline, generosity, celibacy, fasting, reverence for your parents etc. aren't ultimately worth anything unless they are part of a system that is transforming you into something greater than yourself. For many people that system seems to be missing or unacceptable (religion).

>>17826057
>indulge in homosexual activity

Burn fag. Try going to a church sometime asshole

>>17826072
I do go to church sometimes to seduce lonely men that has not been touched by a woman in a long time, the desire for passionate sex overwhelms them and they easily give in to sex with another man

>>17826011 (OP)
It's only virtuous if you had the option to do otherwise

>>17826127
Things that never happened by anon...