What is chastity

Chastity is a product of human history developed to a certain stage. In a general sense, it refers to a person's unwavering quality and character. In a narrower sense, it refers to a kind of conduct regarding sex, which is defined in traditional society as not breaking the body before marriage, remaining faithful after marriage and exclusive to women, while modern society mainly considers chastity as a sexual state.

There are different concepts of chastity in different social and historical stages. In modern China, the criticism of the traditional concept of chastity mainly started from the Restoration School, and intellectuals in the May Fourth period further criticized and put forward some new concepts of chastity, which made chastity change from "absolute feminization" and "absolute property" to "absolute property". property" to "bisexualization and personalization".

History of the development of chastity:

From the pre-Qin era onward, the concept of chastity and its corresponding behaviors have continued for more than 2,000 years, accompanying ancient Chinese society from the beginning to the end, and even extending downward for a long time.

The concept of chastity, with its great penetrating power, has created different degrees of constraints and influences on women in different eras. In the era when the concept of chastity was popular, women's lives were closely linked to it, and the thick wall of chastity seriously wrapped around the woman's love nature.