Vatican City - Inspired by a weekend call by the pope for greater chastity among the young, an Italian Catholic priest has published a guide aimed at helping teenagers avoid a summer of steamy temptation.
"Don't, by your attitude and movements, exhibit your body, especially if you have a physique which turns heads," advises Father Antonio Rungia in a pamphlet entitled A User's Guide To Chastity and packed with tips for the tempted.
"Avoid all traps which have obviously erotic intentions, that could lead to irreparable physical and moral damage," reads another of the rules espoused by the moral theologian based in the southern Italian city of Naples.
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"Don't dress in a manner which attracts attention to your body," urges the guide, adding that it is best to avoid "morally dangerous places" as well as "invitations, especially from unknown people in isolated places".
Rungi also warns against "gatherings which encourage sexual advances" and said young people should beware of friends of questionable morals, "especially during summer".
He urged the young to spend time reading books which espouse respect for the person, and to rediscover important values, such as love, faithfulness, and purity in body and mind.
In his call on Sunday, Pope John Paul II lauded purity of heart and of the body, saying that only through chastity could there be authentic love.
He lamented a world in which "pleasure, egotism and even immorality is too often exalted in the name of false ideals of freedom and happiness."
- Sapa-AFP
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