Articles By: Adam Baba
My Journey to Celibacy
I was 17, about to wrap up my peripatetic high school career—five high schools, four towns, three states—and getting ready, finally, for liberation via graduation. I planned to celebrate by traveling west to California for a couple months of geographic and cultural exploration on my long-awaited first trip to the west coast. The truth is, I was lucky to be graduating at all: my early high school years were a journey through the ‘dark night of the soul,’ as personal growing pains, family crises and too many moves met the crush of adolescent hormones and the lure of sex, drugs… {Read More}
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Show Me The Ropes
My personal path in life and love has been decidedly unconventional. Beginning with a handful of largely unsatisfying initial forays into the realm of girls and sexual activity, I swung the other way after high school graduation: I chose voluntary celibacy for the rest of my teens, while living amongst a small community of healers, students and fellow spiritual seekers.
Somehow, notwithstanding all the hype about sex being “the best thing ever,” I found my first handful of sexual experiences to be somewhat jarring, ultimately leaving me feeling farther away from both my self and my partner. It didn’t help… {Read More}
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