Originally Posted By: Corri

Barring the horror story of alter boys and such, priests and monks 'control' their sex drives for most of their lives.

what makes you think that? don't you suppose that a low libido might be part of the reason that these men choose this avocation?
They don't "control" it; they just don't have it. (or much of one).
Most "thin" people aren't thin because they have superior self-disipline; they're thin because they don't have much of an appetite.
Some of us have much more strongly developed famine avoidance instincts.

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I realize you didn't choose to be a priest or a monk, but that does not negate the fact that it can be controlled.

The only thing you can control is how you act upon it. you can't just blink and make it go away, any more than you can "control" hunger when you're on a diet. you can tolerate it...to a point. but 95% of diets eventually fail.