The Abstinence from the Latin Abstinentia etimologicamente tells the "don'ts" is a voluntary resignation to please a desire or appetite for certain bodily activities that are widely experienced as pleasurable. Generally, the term refers to the renunciation of sexual intercourse and other sexual relations, the consumption of beverages, (usually alcoholic) as well as meals and food. The practice may arise from religious prohibitions or practical considerations. For Catholics abstinence commonly refers to not eating meat on certain days (Holy Week). For centuries, the Church has maintained the obligation of abstinence from meat every Friday (penitential day because it is the day of the Lord's Passion). The obligation has not been removed as many believe. The canon law remains in force this ancient custom, though in Spain, for a special Bula, can be replaced by an act of piety.
Sexual abstinence is the voluntary practice of abstaining from some or all aspects of sexual activity. Christian morality requires abstention from sexual relations outside of marriage. To abstinence from pleasures in general or from leisure, whether partial or total, may be motivated by ambition, career or general, self-respect (without the point of view that even the last examples can be considered as sources Pleasure).
It is widely accepted that abstinence from addictive drugs works well. However, it is not clear whether abstinence from the general pleasures of leisure yields higher productivity. Too much work creates stress and its potential adverse effects. Also, the very effort to achieve abstinence can consume the willpower of its ultimate goal. Total abstinence from pleasure or leisure is practically impossible and instead of an individual work-life balance is necessary. Medicamente withdrawal can occur in problems toilet trainingThese conditions produce an abstinence in the reason of making some consents of what is normally done, the dependence on mechanisms to control abstinence are generic for each failure and together with therapy they represent the best solution for such affects.
