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The idea that marriage is a little bit unchaste and a necessary evil is not in accord with the ideal which Jesus expressed. He says that in the beginning God made them male and female and intended men and women to live together in the holy estate of matrimony. What God has planned cannot be impure and it does not make people impure or unchaste.

People are chaste or unchaste because of their own attitude towards sex and not because they are unmarried or married. A virgin may be as unchaste as a married woman. It depends wholly upon the woman, but inherently marriage is as chaste as virginity.