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Chastity typically means to not have sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage.

Chastity means abstinence from sexual intercourse (purity).


Roman Catholic AnswerThe virtue that moderates the desire for sexual pleasure according to the principles of faith and right reason. It is consistent with your state in life, for a married person, chastity would refer to no sex outside of your marriage, or outside of right reason (for the mutual love of the couple and the procreation of children); outside of marriage, the desire is moderated by abstention. It implies an opposition to the immoral in the sense of lustful or licentious and stresses restraint and an avoidance of anything that might defile or make unclean the soul.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

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