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Paperback. What if having access to sex eventually made you want it less?Before celibacy, there was a boy who believed his first sexual experience should be with someone he loved.Then came heartbreak.College.Art school.Music.Attention.Girlfriends.Friends with benefits.One-night stands.Betrayal.And an era in which being wanted became easier than finding the connection he had actually been searching for.In Path to Celibacy, multidisciplinary artist and author 3ichael 7ambert looks back across decades of relationships to understand how a romantic teenager became a young man surrounded by opportunities for physical intimacy-and why those experiences eventually led him in the opposite direction.His journey moves through first love and devastating heartbreak, the sexual freedom of his college years, complicated relationships, infidelity, addiction, grief, cross-country moves, missed opportunities, and the woman who fundamentally changed his understanding of intimacy. Years later, another extraordinary connection forces him to confront the same questions all over again as love, money, generosity, sex, addiction, hope, and deception become increasingly difficult to separate.At the center of everything is one deceptively simple question: What is love?Is it butterflies and overwhelming attraction? Is it sex? Sacrifice? Taking care of someone? Staying when life becomes difficult? Or is real love something quieter-the ability for two independent people to know one another completely and continue choosing each other?Raw, reflective, occasionally humorous, and deeply personal, Path to Celibacy is not an argument against sex, nor is it a story about religious purity. It is an exploration of one man's changing relationship with intimacy and his realization that pleasure, desire, companionship, dependency, and love are not interchangeable.It is also a story about learning boundaries the hard way.About discovering that being needed does not necessarily mean being loved.That rescuing someone is not the same as building a life with them.That generosity cannot purchase reciprocity.And that sometimes the most powerful expression of personal freedom is simply saying no.Spanning teenage romance, young adulthood, years of celibacy, extraordinary encounters, painful mistakes, and an enduring quest for connection, Path to Celibacy asks what remains when sex is removed from the search for love.For 3ichael 7ambert, the answer is not certainty.It is a path.And after more than a decade, he is still walking it. After years of hookups, heartbreak, complicated relationships, and searching for love, one man chooses a different path. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798182844215
- Título
- Path to Celibacy (Paperback)
- Autor
- Michael Andrew Lambert
- Editorial
- 3ichael 7ambert
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798182844215
What if having access to sex eventually made you want it less?
Before celibacy, there was a boy who believed his first sexual experience should be with someone he loved.
Then came heartbreak.
College.
Art school.
Music.
Attention.
Girlfriends.
Friends with benefits.
One-night stands.
Betrayal.
And an era in which being wanted became easier than finding the connection he had actually been searching for.
In Path to Celibacy, multidisciplinary artist and author 3ichael 7ambert looks back across decades of relationships to understand how a romantic teenager became a young man surrounded by opportunities for physical intimacy-and why those experiences eventually led him in the opposite direction.
His journey moves through first love and devastating heartbreak, the sexual freedom of his college years, complicated relationships, infidelity, addiction, grief, cross-country moves, missed opportunities, and the woman who fundamentally changed his understanding of intimacy. Years later, another extraordinary connection forces him to confront the same questions all over again as love, money, generosity, sex, addiction, hope, and deception become increasingly difficult to separate.
At the center of everything is one deceptively simple question:
What is love?
Is it butterflies and overwhelming attraction? Is it sex? Sacrifice? Taking care of someone? Staying when life becomes difficult? Or is real love something quieter-the ability for two independent people to know one another completely and continue choosing each other?
Raw, reflective, occasionally humorous, and deeply personal, Path to Celibacy is not an argument against sex, nor is it a story about religious purity. It is an exploration of one man's changing relationship with intimacy and his realization that pleasure, desire, companionship, dependency, and love are not interchangeable.
It is also a story about learning boundaries the hard way.
About discovering that being needed does not necessarily mean being loved.
That rescuing someone is not the same as building a life with them.
That generosity cannot purchase reciprocity.
And that sometimes the most powerful expression of personal freedom is simply saying no.
Spanning teenage romance, young adulthood, years of celibacy, extraordinary encounters, painful mistakes, and an enduring quest for connection, Path to Celibacy asks what remains when sex is removed from the search for love.
For 3ichael 7ambert, the answer is not certainty.
It is a path.
And after more than a decade, he is still walking it.
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