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Once I posted that I didn't understand Chastity as a virtue name, since I didn't see why it was virtuous to refrain from sexual intercourse throughout one's lifetime. Someone answered that "chastity" doesn't really refer to total abstention---it refers to abstention from *unlawful* intercourse only. Well, not exactly unlawful, but not approved of by religion---so, in other words, it refers to abstaining from intercourse only from anyone one isn't married to.

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But, since I don't believe it's wrong to have sex without being married, and I don't want to imply that I do, Chastity still isn't a name that I would use.

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Purity is rather different, though. It seems more open to interpretation than Chastity. Pure in what? Pure in thought? Pure in deed? Pure in what sort of deeds?

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I like both names based solely upon their sound.