Abstinence (disambiguation)
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Abstinence is a voluntary restraint from indulging a desire or appetite for certain bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure.
Forms of abstinence include
- Coerced abstinence, a drug rehabilitation technique
- Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church
- Fasting and abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
- Sexual abstinence
Abstinence may also refer to:
- Abstinence (band), an experimental industrial music project
- "The Abstinence", a Seinfeld episode
- Abstinence theory of interest in classical economics
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