Implications of “a chaste and holy life”

Such a chaste and holy life, with its implications of

• modesty,
• purity,
• temperance,
• decency, and
• clean-mindedness,
• involves no less than
• the exercise of moderation in
• all that pertains to dress,
• language,
• amusements, and
• all artistic and literary avocations.
• It demands daily vigilance in the control of one's carnal desires and corrupt inclinations.
• It calls for the abandonment of a frivolous conduct, with its excessive attachment to trivial and often misdirected pleasures.
• It requires total abstinence from all alcoholic drinks, from opium, and from similar habit-forming drugs.
• It condemns
• the prostitution of art and of literature,
• the practices of nudism and of
• companionate marriage,
• infidelity in marital relationships, and
• all manner
• of promiscuity,
• of easy familiarity, and
• of sexual vices....

- Shoghi Effendi  (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, A Chase and Holy Life)