everyone should realise that the pr

everyone should realise that the profession of the evangelical counsels, though entailing the renunciation of certain values which undoubtedly merit high esteem, does not detract from a genuine development of the human person. Rather by its very nature it is most beneficial to that development, (no. 46)
It is possible to arrive at psychosexual maturity without genital intimacy. As human beings we are sexual. As celibates we are called to exercise and experience our sexuality without deliberately seeking genital pleasure and exclusive companionship with another person as happens in marriage. This, of course, is a perennial challenge for the celibates.