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Old May 12th, 2017 #862
Alex Him
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I bought a book A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott...



...after I read from Julius Caesar https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=860 about the Germans that they:

"Those who have remained chaste for the longest time, receive the greatest commendation among their people; they think that by this the growth is promoted, by this the physical powers are increased and the sinews are strengthened. And to have had knowledge of a woman before the twentieth year they reckon among the most disgraceful acts"

Book VI, XXI - http://www.forumromanum.org/literatu...lic_e6.html#21