Chaste

"At 704.0 km˛ (272 square miles), it is considered one of the few city-states in the world."

"Chastity, in many religious and cultural contexts, is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. The term is most often associated with refraining from intimacy, especially outside of marriage. Chastity is often taken to be synonymous with virginity or abstention from all activity; however, some consider active married couples to be chaste if they have relations only with each other."

"The Klone and I starts out normally enough: after a 13-year marriage, Stephanie, 41, gets dumped for a busty young bimbo. "She was gorgeous. And I felt nauseous," Stephanie reflects--though she admits that things hadn't been going well, what with hubby living off her trust fund and their having lex every six months or so. Realistically, their farewell hug goes like this: "My nose ran on his tie, while ever so cautiously he held me, kind of like a bank robber with sticks of dynamite taped all over his body.""

"I met Roselyn in the Brighton's Lanes, the Upper Lanes, near the market. Rob and I were talking about his "Art Night" when Ros entered the shop. My jaw dropped. Her knee-high boots accented her long legs and she became for me, forever, "the lady with the boots"."

Title image from Steve Webb.