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