Koan #31: The Truth of Abstinence

It is often touted by Her detractors, that when speaking of the Holy Church’s teaching on sexual control through abstinence, that this approach “simply does not work.” Yet it takes no great thought to know that abstinence does, of course, work completely and fully; it is, indeed, totally effective. But of course what such critics mean—in their twisting of words—is that abstinence is simply too difficult to do, thus clearly demonstrating that its “failure” is a failure of the individual’s will, not of the technique itself. And thus only the fool can claim that a failure of will is the same as a failure of technique, which simply reinforces the Church’s teaching on the most effective technique of sexual control. Truly, let one thus be frank with such opponents: abstinence has not been tried and determined defective, but rather, it has been found taxing and thus not tried.