Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all  (Daniel 11:37). What institution, or system, or authority ever rejected the "desire of women," to the extent of making celibacy the nearly invariable rule for all who would participate in it?  The obvious answer is known to all men.