It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent “celibacy,” by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity “backward.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. Sex and Destiny, ch. 4 (1984).
