i suppose... the word [chastity] is still used today in Am.English
the same way C.S.Lewis used it here.

————————————— from C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)

People often misunderstand what psychology teaches about
‘repressions’. It teaches us that ‘repressed’ sex is dangerous.

But ‘repressed’ is here a technical term: it does not mean
‘suppressed’ in the sense of ‘denied’ or ‘resisted’.

A repressed desire or thought is one which has been thrust into the
subconscious (usually at a very early age) and can now come before the
mind only in a disguised and unrecognisable form.

Repressed sexuality does not appear to the patient to be sexuality at
all. When an adolescent or an adult is engaged in resisting a conscious
desire, he is not dealing with a repression nor is he in the least
danger of creating a repression.

On the contrary, those who are seriously attempting chastity are more
conscious, and soon know a great deal more about their own sexuality
than anyone else.

They come to know their desires as Wellington knew Napoleon, or as
Sherlock Holmes knew Moriarty; as a rat-catcher knows rats or a
plumber knows about leaky pipes.

Virtue ———even attempted virtue——— brings light; indulgence brings fog.

————————————— from C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)

obPuzzle -- Could he have used better analogy ... than ... comparing
sex to Moriarty, rats, and leaky pipes?

On 4/18/2024 12:34 PM, HenHanna wrote:
>
> i suppose...  the word [chastity]  is still used today in Am.English
> the same way C.S.Lewis used it here.
>
>
>         —————————————   from  C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)
>
>
>  People often misunderstand what psychology teaches about
> ‘repressions’. It teaches us that ‘repressed’ sex is dangerous.
>
> But ‘repressed’ is here a technical term:     it does not mean
> ‘suppressed’ in the sense of ‘denied’ or ‘resisted’.
>
> A repressed desire or thought is one which has been thrust into the
> subconscious (usually at a very early age) and can now come before the
> mind only in a disguised and unrecognisable form.
>
> Repressed sexuality does not appear to the patient to be sexuality at
> all. When an adolescent or an adult is engaged in resisting a conscious
> desire, he is not dealing with a repression nor is he in the least
> danger of creating a repression.
>
> On the contrary, those who are seriously attempting chastity are more
> conscious, and soon know a great deal more about their own sexuality
> than anyone else.
>
> They come to know their desires as    Wellington knew Napoleon, or as
> Sherlock Holmes knew Moriarty;   as a rat-catcher knows rats or a
> plumber knows about leaky pipes.
>
> Virtue  ———even attempted virtue——— brings light; indulgence brings fog.
>
>
>            —————————————   from  C.S.Lewis, [Mere Christianity] (1952 ?)
>
>
> obPuzzle -- Could he have used better analogy  ... than ... comparing
>                            sex to  Moriarty, rats, and leaky pipes?

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