As a result, the vow of celibacy has become an unworkable anachronism.

Pull one thread the celibacy requirement for priests, for example and the whole edifice comes crashing down.

This made the notion of celibacy, a perhaps noble, but for most people impossible ideal, bearable.

For many women and girls, their position in society does not enable them to insist on fidelity, demand condom use, or refuse sex to their partner even when they suspect or know he is already infected himself further, most women lack the economic power to remove themselves from relationships that carry major risks of infections.

Pull one thread the celibacy requirement for priests, for example and the whole edifice comes crashing down. Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.

David came to his house at Jerusalem and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn't go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.