The correct spelling is celibate. When someone is celibate, it means they are abstaining from sexual activity.
If you make the choice to be celibate, then it shouldn't be a problem for you. It is when sex is denied someone who wants it that there is a problem. Celibate is not having sex with someone else, that still leaves masturbation.
a priest would know the answer to that. if you are able to find a celibate one that is.
Optional celibacy is a choice to be celibate, such as those who choose to remain celibate until marriage, etc. This is different from, say a priest, who is required by faith to be celibate. It also includes priests of denominations which do not demand celebacy (the Church of England for example) who choose to be celebate (for example the Company of Mission Priests a Vincentian Order within the Church of England).
Someone who is good with math and numbers would choose accounting as a profession
No, actually it is the opposite that is the truth. If someone were completely celibate, then their chance of catching AIDS would be almost nothing, while the more sexual partners you have, the higher are your chances of contracting the virus.
He had to swear that if he failed the test he would live a celibate life.
A:As popes have for many centuries been required to be celibate, many sexually active popes would not have made their sexual status known, so we could never say with any certainty how many popes were celibate. It is generally only because of the existence of illegitimate children or complaints of rape, that it was proven that a pope was not celibate. Popes who were relatively elderly at the time of their election would probably have been celibate, but in some other cases popes would have been celibate by moral choice. In modern times it is considered that almost all popes have been celibate in office.
They are individuals, they can believe whatever they like. While it is commonly believed he wasn't married and therefore he would have been celibate, it would matter either way. Faith and belief in Christ and the purpose of chrisitanity doesn't rely on Jesus being celibate or not. It is moot.
Priests did not have to be celibate.
Priests did not have to be celibate.
The Celibate Rifles was created in 1979.