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Ep. 233 - (Group Learning Program) - Chapter 7 - The Five Precepts: A Householder's Guide to Daily Practice

Daily Wisdom - Walking The Path with The Buddha

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Sex With Multiple Partners, This Is Unchastity

Sex with multiple partners is unchastity, according to the buddhist teaching. We should only have sex with one partner at a time if we are in a committed relationship. If you're celibate and someone tries to lure you into having sex it will harm them too. You shouldn't be interested or even attempt to have sexual relations with somebody who's practising celibacy because that would cause us harm. Sex without consent entails a penalty such as rape - this is also like stealing. And any kind of sex without consent involving minors is going to cause harm to those minor people. This is why humanity has made laws around these things. In certain parts of the world its not

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