FiftyTwo comments on Why is our sex drive too strong? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 23 December 2011 05:01:49AM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 December 2011 05:50:09AM 1 point [-]

Not really, since outside observers can't tell the two cases apart.