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"Owen Pick's life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt's spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel-involuntary celibate-forums, where he meets the charismatic, mysterious, and sinister Bryn. Across the street from Owen lives...
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Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady has always followed her lead, including becoming a member of the church's "Celibacy Circle." Now in his senior year at college, the smart, and very handsome, Brady is a lead contender for...
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"Cade Elgin has a life and career in New York City, and she's determined to get back to both as soon as possible after her aunt's funeral in Portland. However, when she unexpectedly inherits her aunt's sex toy store -- and has to save it from foreclosure -- Cade realizes she's not going anywhere. But making Satisfaction Guaranteed profitable won't be as easy as Cade had hoped. Her new partner has an infuriating lack of business sense, and an infuriating...
4) Saint
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Priest volume 3
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This is the story of a monk and his journalist former lover traveling through Europe's monasteries and discovering meaning of life and love.
"I can't have Elijah Iverson. I can't have him because he's my older brother's best friend. I can't have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he's now engaged to someone else-someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect. I can't have Elijah...
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Desire and Denial confronts the fundamentals of Christian history, capturing the powerful interplay between the limits of sexuality within the Roman Catholic Church's priesthood and sisterhood and compassionate accounts of mystic forces that make many doubt their calling.
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"Subject: Mitchell McCabe, U.S. Air Force Captain (Call sign: Casanova) Current status: celibate--because he lost a bet. Mission: Survive thirty days without sex. Obstacle: Captain Alexandria Hughes, who's suddenly gone from hotshot pilot to just plain hot! Alex has had it bad for gorgeous Mitch ever since their academy days, but he's only ever seen her as a wingman, never a woman. It's time she made him take another long, hard look. After years as...
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In all the coverage of the priestly sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, one story has been left untold: the story of the everyday lives of Catholic priests in America, which remain so little understood as to be a secret, even as one priestly sexual predation after another has come to light.
In The Other Side of the Altar, Paul Dinter tells one priest's story-his own-in such a way as to reveal the lives of a generation of priests that spanned...
8) Thai massage
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Set in Ujjain, Thai Massage narrates the story of a middle-class 70-year-old widower, Atmaram Dubey. Thai Massage is an outrageous journey of self-discovery defying the social norms of Atmaram Dubey who has been celibate for decades.
15) Freeing celibacy
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Mandatory celibacy for Catholic priests has been the norm for almost 900 years. Now the clergy sexual abuse scandal and the rapidly declining number of priests have pushed many of the faithful to the point of questioning this tradition. To this sometimes tense discussion of sex and power, priest and theologian Cozzens brings his signature calmness, his own gifted experience of celibate life, and his talent for distilling the spiritual truth of the...
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"Matthew Flynn is a former officer in the U.S. Navy, and a graduate of Yale University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. He served as defense counsel for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee for 15 years. He describes in detail the cases he defended, the Archbishops he worked for, and the conclusions he reached regarding the celibate clergy and the exclusion of women from the priesthood. From his experience, he concludes by discussing the nature...
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