abstinence

Examples of abstinence in the following topics:

• Periodic Abstinence

  • Periodic abstinence refers to abstaining from sexual intercourse during the fertile days of a menstrual cycle.
  • This schematic of a typical female menstrual cycle shows that periods of ovulation are taken in account to be a period of abstinence in calendar-based contraception methods.

• The Temperance Movement

  • The temperance movement of the early nineteenth century advocated for alcohol moderation or complete abstinence from alcohol.
  • The movement advocated temperance, or levelness, rather than abstinence.
  • The movement split along two lines in the late 1830s between moderates, who allowed some drinking, and radicals, who demanded total abstinence.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity. " The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity.

• Malthus' Theory of Population Growth

  • As a solution, Malthus urged "moral restraint. " That is, he declared that people must practice abstinence before marriage, forced sterilization where necessary, and institute criminal punishments for so-called unprepared parents who had more children than they could support.

• Absorption of Alcohol

  • In cases of severe liver disease, the only treatment option may be a liver transplant in alcohol-abstinent patients.

• HIV and AIDS

  • These include a re-emphasis on fidelity within marriage and sexual abstinence outside of it.

• Socialization and Human Sexuality

  • For example, many evangelical Christians value abstinence and believe that men and women should wait until marriage to engage in sexual activity.

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  • Similarly, long-term alcohol use is associated with the development of anxiety disorders, with evidence that prolonged abstinence can in turn result in the remission of anxiety symptoms.

• Narcotics

  • Physical dependence refers to an alteration of normal body functions that necessitates the continued presence of a drug in order to prevent the withdrawal or abstinence syndrome.

• The Prohibition Movement

  • The purpose of the WCTU was to further the temperance movement and to create a, "sober and pure world" through abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity.