The essence of chastity consists in the quickness to affirm the value of the person in every situation, and in raising to the personal level all reactions to the value of “the body and sex.” This requires a special interior, spiritual effort, for affirmation of the values of the person can only be the product of the spirit, but this effort is above all a positive and creative “from within,” not negative and destructive. It is not a matter of summarily “annihilating” the value “body and sex” in the conscious mind by pushing reactions to them dow into the subconscious, but of sustained long term integration; the value of “body and sex” must be grounded and implanted in the value of the person.
