Would you seek marital or sexual guidance/advice from someone that is celibate?
Read post #11.
Certainly. I'd recommend it.
Advice on moral issues is not like learning plumbing or car mechanics. It's not a question of knowing where the bolts and brackets go in order to make something function.
Morality is not like that. It's not necessary to engage in copulation with a member of your own or the opposite sex in order to understand the fundamental truths of human sexuality, morality and psychology. That's because those truths are not found in the male or female reproductive tract nor in the part of the brain which goes "oooh.....aaaah" when a pleasurable sensation is experienced.
Rather, those truths been revealed by God to men and their fundamental value has been verified to the nth degree over thousands of years due to the calamitous consequences which occur when men ignore them, as has occurred with monotonous regularity. A man or woman who is chaste is quite capable of viewing the human experience in historical terms and drawing conclusions from it.
Perhaps we should all take our advice on sexual morality from someone whose entire life has been one sexual encounter after another. That's where your logic goes. I suggest Hugh Hefner. He'll set you straight.
No, seriously.....
Would you seek marital or sexual guidance/advice from someone that is celibate?
Would you then refuse medical care and advice for a disease if your doctor has never personally suffered from it? Should cancer patients only accept help from doctors with cancer? Is that really a qualifier?
The relevant question is not this, but whether the person you are seeking advice from is knowledgeable about the subject and able to convey that knowledge to you. If a priest successfully lives a celibate life, or whatever level of chastity is relevant to their life situation, they sound like a good place to go for advice on also being chaste. These are people who, theoretically at least, sacrifice worldly pleasure for Christ, and you wonder why a Christian would ask them for guidance in matters of morality?
If I felt I needed to do so, I wouldn’t hesitate to ask my priest for such guidance because I’m confident he would advise me based upon the Teachings of the Church not the teachings of man.