CELIBACY AND FAMILY DISRUPTION

Celibacy and Clerical Culture

• . . f o r the manner of thy begetting is so foule that the name, nay the lightest thought of it, d~leth the purest minde, so that our B. Sauiour refused none of our miseries, but on@ that," and the matter so horrid, so foule, that all other dung is pleasant and gratefull in respect of it; nay we dare not in discourse glue it a name, for our owne shame & others of fence. . . I cannot imagine a...

Virginity and celibacy as health issues.

Mating-System Evolution: Succeeding by Celibacy

Once invented, other chimpanzees become more likely to express the same behaviour themselves — after all, the onlookers could have invented the behaviour themselves, it just happened that another lucky (or perhaps slightly more gifted or motivated) chimpanzee came first and thus acted as a catalyst for the others’ individual learning. Furthermore, in the past, group A invented the use of leaves...

Jewish heterosexuality, queer celibacy? Ælfric translates the Old Testament priesthood

This essay argues that Ælfric’s discussion of priestly marriage demonstrates an Anglo-Saxon articulation of the difference between Jews and Christians as sexual difference. Ælfric represents temporally distant Biblical Jews as embodying a kinship-based heterosexuality that has been superseded by and is now opposed by Christian chastity and asexual reproduction. This supersession operates throug...

The Association of Telomere Length With Family Violence and Disruption

BACKGROUND: To enhance the understanding of biological mechanisms connecting early adversity and negative health, we examine the association between family interpersonal violence and disruption and telomere length in youth. These specific exposures were selected because of their established links with negative health consequences across the life-course. METHODS: Children, age 5 to 15, were recr...