The "C" Word.

Lauren Winner on chastity.

Noli Irritare provides the link. Also, appropos of my recent snit about the rhetorical uses and abuses of the Inquisition, I really like her husband's observation that "the saints to come out of the Inquisition period were Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross - not Torquemada," which is a shorter, neater and more charitable response than discussing the inglorious history of the Spanish Inquisition.