I have been celibate for 4 years now and I have found it to be good for me in so many ways! It truly is empowering, and it has made me see love and sex in a different light.

I have a disability, and as such have been celibate for almost fifteen years, subject to change. I am managing this lifestyle, although do appreciate companionship with young women.

A year and two months celibate! Stumbled on this site while looking for support groups, glad to know others share the same ideas/values

Divorced christian. Shell-shocked from bad marriage and painful divorce. Somewhat introverted. Celibate for 2 1/2 years since the divorce. Emotionally and physically lonely. Thank you for this web site. Need the support.

Want to say thanks for the website. I have searched on the internet about celibacy for more than a year but never found this site. What a noble attempt it is! I have heard from trusted sources that everything has it's utility. Whether it's celibacy outside of marriage or married celibacy that aims for producing good quality children (books could be written about this!), voluntary self control is a much under discussed and understood subject in mainstream society. Sexual sublimation is believed to increase productivity, creativity, spiritual dedication and affinity to truth (no matter your 'religion'), mental and intellectual greatness and stability, physical strength, endurance and overall capacity to tolerate the dualities of the world. great people throughout history swear by it. We just have to aim for progress. Failure is the pillar of success for those who have been badly influenced or guided in the past, and perseverance is the pillar of success for those who are fortunate enough to not have succumbed in their present life. Power to all those who can resist or try to resist the physical urges. May intelligence and real love reign over the physical urges! may the truth be ever victorious!

I have been married before , I have 3 kids grown tho . I don't have the diesire to pursue or have any type of physical relationship sexually I mean , I just want a friend . I'm not gay , I love women but I just want to be .... I don't have the words or don't know the words . I love life and I just want to put my energy into my life and career and just have friend and family am I crazy

On 13 August I will celi-brate my year mark of celibacy !! I'm so excited ! I came to see what are the triditional ways to celebrate such events ^_^ thanx !

Im a 24 year old female thats been celibate for a whole year now & I have to say im loving it.

I agree that celibacy and virginity are important and good for religious reasons but I feel I have a hidden identity as I feel there is too much of a stigma to be open about it and I don't feel affirmed by hardly anyone over it.

Sex is about Love for Children, The greatest Love is from Father or Mother for their Child and if two people love their Child then they will have no problem loving eachother,because true Love is selfless. Who would go immediately to the marriage registry office and marry a complete Stranger that they just met at a Disco? How much more perversly sick and mad is it to consummate a empty open marriage Through Sex. The real Losers are the Sexfreaks who sell their Soul for a empty sex thrill. Such people are in Endeffect nothing more than cheap Whores Who degrade themselves and the other Person for empty superficial physical emptiness. Its the non-virgins who should feel ashamed. The only thing that gives Sex importance Or meaning is that a Child will be born. The really great and wonderful thing About sex Is the Birth of ones Child. Without Children Sex is a bad Joke.

Awesome site. It is heartening to see this side of America. Unfortunately this is not what media projects about America in my country. We are also becoming overly sexualized society in India. We need to import this good stuff, we had too much of hollywood

Very interested in the subject of Celibacy.

I'm a virgin, yes It's true. Actually I consider myself as having a high sexual drive as I masturbate a lot. I desires to have sex and apparently it becomes my obsession but I just can't do it since I'm unmarried. In my opinion sex is just for a man and a woman within marriage and that's what perfect sex is. I had a girlfriend and some close friends who actually wanted to have sex with me but I went through my high school and college since 2004 to 2011 without having sex, some of my friends told me the great pleasure of having sex and I was just not comfortable with it.Sometimes I'm tired of waiting for marriage for just having sex but I believe it is a right decision. And I feel that waiting is much more easier after high school and college. Sometimes I feel so lonely because I think that everybody out there is having sex but I knew from this website that some people are waiting too.

I have recently decided to be celibate until marriage and if i don't find someone to meet those standards then i guess this will be forever. People might find it strange because i am a mom of 7 so you can imagine what they say about it but after being in one relationship that i was engaged and in for three yrs only to be left and used i went celibate for a yr and then thought i found love yet another engagement and took 15Å“ yrs out of my life and no progress or marriage, i vowed celibacy when i was 7 months pregnant and to this day i am waiting. It makes me feel like all i am being used for is that. Alot of guys don't want anything to do with me when i say that but i won't give in and i do hope there is someone who shares my beliefs. For now i am refinding out who i am and just enjoying life with my kids. Peer pressure is a struggle since the one who has my heart keeps trying but i won't give in. I deserve better.

I am so happy to be celibate right now. I have not had sex in over a year and not have masturbated in a year. I am glad to find a site of people who are also celibate. If you are really committed you can do it. I am not really ashamed of my sexual history and I don't believe in over scarying people over std's.(use condoms if you do something) I think people should be able to do or not do with their bodies as they please. I am bisexual. I had sex in relationships and experimented a bit. Actually when I think about it there was much time in between I was celibate. As I get older I no longer place a priority on sex. I studied Buddhism and meditate. I am intelligent, creative and spritual. There is so many other things I would like to do than get laid. I am really annoyed at society's attitude about sex. People expect it. Men have have gone out with starting pressuring me and some men don't want relationships but friends with benifits. Also I am starting to see negative effects of porn on society. I am very sex positive but porn is not sex. Right now I would like to remain celibate if I don't marry and if I do get married not have sex until after marriage. I support a person's right to do or not do whatever he or she wants to do with his or her body. It is a basic human right.

I am so glad I found this site and to see that there are other people like me. I am so happy being celibate! ..but I feel like I am different than everyone else. I also feel very old and isolated and like no one will want to be my friend if they find out I am celibate. I don't feel lonely now, but I have a feeling it will become an issue. Its also my secret and I feel like no one would ever understand

This site is interesting as well as a good to me.

I am a virgin and sex was never important to me. I always thought that connecting with someone was way more important. After a lot of prayer I realized that life of celibacy is for me. God can work through me better being this way and it's perfect for me. I always thought I was weird because I wasn't into sex like everyone else but it makes me unique especially in a world that promotes sex and sexual encounters in everything these days. It would be nice to find people I can relate to thought because ever since I made this decision and told everyone.. A LOT of people stopped talking to me. Which is okay I knew that would happen. But God bless everyone on their journey(:

My celibacy wasn't a conscious decision at first. For about the past two years I was involved with two sexual partners I hardly went 2 weeks withouthhaving sex. But at some point last year I started to feel.. empty.. I was searching for something but I didn't have the slightest clue what it was I was searching for so I started to do some research on emotional issues, spiritual growth etc. During this phase I was still very sexually active however there was a big difference in the way I felt afterwards. I no longer felt satisfied in any aspect when it came to sex and being on this spiritual journey as I call it was waking me up to different things I felt about myself some good some awful. The sex at this point even though less satisfying was used to mask or not think about the way I was feeling about myself and my life choices. I didn't even think to associate what I was feeling with the meaningless sex I was having. A few months passed everything continued and that lingering feeling of disgust and confusion was more present than ever. Then came October 7th of 2013 which was my last sexual encounter, I didn't want to do it I even had to self medicate to numb what I was feeling. The next day I just decided I wasn't doing that to myself anymore I was going to focus on my true feelings of love, life and spirutuality and value myself and my worth for a change. It hasn't been easy but it's worth the challenge and I owe it to myself to continue on this journey to find what true love and intimacy really feel like. I've noticed I have more energy now and things that I never noticed before are more clear to me now. I no longer associated ever little thing with sex or pleasing someone sexually. So this month will be my 4th month and boy has it been worth it so far im sure I'll struggle some but I won't suffer. Little by little this will become much easier and and divine love will be in every corner of my life

Is anyone else celibate due to previous heartbreak? I have been celibate for 14 years, and I intend that to continue for as long as it is meant to. It doesn't lessen my desire for companionship with young women, though. Sometimes that's painful.