“Celibacy has had a rebrand,” said Refinery29. Previously it was “intertwined with religious ideas of purity and chastity”, but amid a rising awareness of asexuality and the erosion of reproductive rights, the motives for abstaining from sex are now “more varied”.
Italian-American actress Julia Fox recently linked her two-and-a-half years of celibacy to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which ended the constitutional right to abortion in the US, saying she didn’t feel comfortable having sex “until things change”.
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