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The monkish outlook which deprecates the life of a householder and exaggerates the necessity of strict celibacy, is expressed in a large part of mystical literature. But this is only because the authors were monks and nuns themselves, or lay persons trained by monks and nuns, or old men and women who had little sympathy with the feelings and needs of younger ones. Such antagonism towards sex is all the more confusing since it is as much justified by some of the facts as it is refuted by others.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 177