11/20/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 8/14/2000 CALL 1 800-423-TALK The History of Celibacy Email to friend On this hour, "A History Of Celibacy." According to author Elizabeth Abbott, lifelong abstention is not just for the religious. Throughout history there have been castrated boys destined for an operatic career, young women cloistered against thier will, or frustrated bacheolors doomed by the surplus of males in contemporary China. What caused and still causes people to give up sex? (Hosted by Michael Goldfarb) Related Shows Language of Blood Here And Now (11/26/2003) The Working Life The Connection (05/23/2000) The Cathars The Connection (09/04/2001) Robert F. Kennedy The Connection (10/26/2000) The Madam Here And Now (09/30/2003) Love Poetry The Connection (12/01/2003) Elizabeth Abbott, author of " A History of Celibacy."

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