[Billthedrill]

In light of the ubiquity of sexual pressures it is becoming harder and harder for men to choose celibacy for life...

I didn't choose celibacy. It chose me.

While the author is correct that the early Church did not require celibacy, it was certainly not for the reason that seems to be advanced here - sexual imagery is ubiquitous and men are weak. I've heard that argument advanced to rationalize adultery, too, usually just before the sound of a frying pan striking a cranium...

[cathway]

Sure. But celibacy, when not an option, increases risks and we have see with what results.

This, as I see it, is not an argument for abolishing celibacy. St. Paul says "better to marry than to burn with lust". And Paul said that when celibacy was in fact an option, according to Hardon.