Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

And, in principle, it could've gone on forever, with perfect celibacy on the part of the hosts.

Pull one thread the celibacy requirement for priests, for example and the whole edifice comes crashing down. Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.

The growing tendency for young people to go abroad to study or work, which has led to the advent of far reaching transformations in population characteristics, with attendant impacts on the demographic situation, such as later marriage, permanent celibacy and rising dependency ratios, thereby aggravating the social situation of the family and jeopardizing its stability.