The value of abstaining from sex in priestly situations is signalling of willpower and piety, one must be actively resisting temptation. As such someone with no sex drive wouldn’t get the same cache.
Not really, since outside observers can’t tell the two cases apart.
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The value of abstaining from sex in priestly situations is signalling of willpower and piety, one must be actively resisting temptation. As such someone with no sex drive wouldn’t get the same cache.
Not really, since outside observers can’t tell the two cases apart.