Abstinence

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Abstinence is a voluntary restraint from indulging a desire or appetite for certain bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure.

Forms of abstinence include

• Coerced abstinence- a drug rehabilitation technique
• Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church
• Fasting and abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• Sexual abstinence

Abstinence may also refer to:

• Abstinence (band), an experimental industrial music project
• "The Abstinence", a Seinfeld episode
• Abstinence theory of interest in classical economics

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