In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.


Havelock Ellis on Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue (ed. 1937)


In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes...

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes...

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes...

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes...