abstinence

禁欲 ｜ Asceticism

The act of suppressing instinctive desires. Many social and religious taboos emphasize or require abstinence.

If this develops into an ideology, it becomes asceticism . For abstinence as a philosophy and religion, see the article on asceticism .

In ancient times, it was often linked to asceticism .

To suppress various sexual desire and similar sexual desire.

As sex itself has been taboo, it was a basic virtue pursued by monks of many religions.

In India, there was a theory that it would be wise only if it was not assessed because the function of the semen and the brain were linked, and there was a factor that saved semen in the province, but this is a development of sex . For reference, the surrounding organs are damaged, because if the situation is blocked, the semen flows back to the bladder .

According to the web version of Gupshinist 's comic, if you do this for a long time, you will reach the level of immortality.

For reference, an asexual person is a person who does not feel sexual attraction towards others regardless of the presence or absence of libido , and asexuality corresponds to sexual orientation . That is, asexual[1] ≠ Asexual person[2] .

Catholic priests and monks must live in lifelong abstinence , and it is also the second major method of contraception recommended to believers .[3]

Buddhist monks also live their lives in abstinence.

Suppresses appetite. Abstinence is not only not eating anything at all, but also restricting food, such as abstaining from meat ( vegetarianism ). Like no chicken for 100 days.

In religion, fasting in Buddhism , Ramadan in Islam , and fasting and prayer in Christianity[4] etc. There are many references to fasting in Judaism .

In Christianity, many characters in the Bible, including Jesus, fasted. Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days, and in the Old Testament, it was a lot of fasting in the sense of repentance. For example, David was given a severe rebuke of God through the prophet Nathan after adultery with Bathsheba, and when the son was died, he fasted and repented until the child died. The Jews traditionally fasted on Monday and Thursday, and early Christians had a tradition of fasting on Wednesday and Friday. In modern Catholics, it is defined as a duty of believers that fasting a day on Friday.

In the early church, there were monks who prayed for a few days to several months without eating any food or water except for the so -called culinary saints. These rescuers are said to have been mainly in the Middle East, such as Syria .

It is said that in the old days in Southern Europe , there were people who bound themselves with chains and whipped themselves to make penitential marches or crawled on their knees to make pilgrimages to holy places . In particular, devout monks are said to carry devices in their underwear that allow the penis to be pricked by thorns when erect , and morning erections are even an extreme example.[5] It is said that there were cases where people personally practiced becoming eunuchs by actually committing amputation . In Japanese Buddhism, this kind of eunuch is called Najol (羅切), which means cutting off Mara .

The more devout the fundamentalist or fundamentalist denomination , the more severe this tendency becomes. For example, in the past in England , devout Puritans were encouraged to cover themselves in gray clothes from head to toe, regardless of gender.[6] Islamic fundamentalists also strictly prohibit exposure of the female body. However, since humans are only human and their repressed desires cannot go anywhere, if you peel back the layers, there are many stories that say that these people are actually doing everything secretly behind their backs.[7]

Civil service exam students preparing for the civil service exam say, “ I will never go to a restaurant / buffet until I pass the civil service exam!”, “I will never sleep for more than 12 hours until I pass the civil service exam!”, “I will never sleep more than 12 hours until I pass the civil service exam.” “I will never have sex until then !” In a way, setting goals, studying hard, exercising hard, suppressing one's desires, and forcibly suppressing one's desires are, in a way, a type of asceticism. Of course, as a reaction to this, after passing the civil service exam, his suppressed desires (appetite, desire to sleep, desire to sleep, etc.) exploded, and while he was working as a public official, his personality became distorted and he committed all kinds of crimes (mainly sex crimes, theft, murder, etc.) and was fired. It's not like there aren't cases, though.[8]

In psychology, abstinence is defined as the act of pursuing other types of desires. In other words, giving up one desire to satisfy another desire. For example, the desire to become a devout priest or believer within a specific religion, or the desire to give up one's appetite or sexual desire in this life for the goal of being recognized by God or enjoying glory in the afterlife through abstinence and a chaste life in this world. It can be seen as such. Kind of like savings.

In the field of psychological counseling, it is critical because it is believed that it can hinder an individual's happiness . They say that if you try to suppress the desire, it will not go away and will only become distorted by consciously or unconsciously suppressing it, so it is important to find a way to resolve it in a healthy way. In particular, the desire is at a physiological level. When it comes to relationships, the drive caused by the unmet need is consistently heightened until it is resolved, causing physical pain. An exception where sexual desire is not linked to life (...). Maybe this is the reason why sexual desire on a false day becomes a neighborhood drum for religion? It is not unreasonable to regard sexual desire as unclean because it is a desire that can be controlled on one's own, and it is a desire that is likely to lead to harmful events such as sexually transmitted diseases and sexual crimes . Not only individual human beings but also societies where asceticism has spread may appear pious on the outside, but on the inside, they can show hypocrisy that manifests itself in a distorted form due to such oppression. A representative example is the corruption of religion.

Horo from Spice and Wolf denies abstinence, saying , ' Appetite gets rid of most things, but abstinence never creates anything.'[9] Kraft Lawrence agrees. Abstinence is foolish if you lose the 'everyday happiness you feel when eating something delicious'. However, it was later corrected and said to be sophistry. Of course, this is a view viewed only from a thoroughly secular and modern secularist perspective.

Patients with anorexia tend to adhere to excessive abstinence from food and fasting, and paradoxically, their excessively suppressed appetite can explode into a major disaster called binge eating .