Re: Headline; I think you meant to use the term
‘contentment’ vs ‘continent’.
Typo happen to us all.
Better than accidentally using “continence”. LOL
Thanks for being gracious, and I ceertainly make lots of typos with my stiff fingers, but no, I actually meant to use that word, as denoting self-control, vs. incontinent, here as denoting the choice not to engage in sexual relations.
Etymology 2
From Middle English contynent, from Old French continent, from Latin continentem (“continuous; holding together”), present participle of continēre (“to contain”).
Adjective
continent (comparative more continent, superlative most continent)
Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one's bodily needs or passions, especially sex, urination and/or defecation.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous.
a continent fever
(obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Antonyms
incontinent - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/continent
It is what priests are as per the unscriptural RC church law of mandated clerical celibacy that was part of the accretions of unscriptural traditions .