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Just like you can't wish hunger and thirst and fatigue away and just don't eat and don't drink and don't sleep, neither can some people just wish away sex. It will be satisfied in one way or another. I have a book called A Secret World by A. W. Richard Sipe, a Catholic priest. It was a 20 year study of sexuality among priests. When they become priests they take a vow of no sex: no auto, no hetero and no homo. In the study, they found that less than 3% of all priests were completely faithful to their vows. They all found outlets for their sexuality in some way. Some with pornography and autoeroticism, some with whores, some with other priests, some with parish boys, some with secret wives, some with wives of members of the congregation. It has a way of coming out, even in people with the best of intentions. God knows what is best for man. He said it was better to marry than to burn. To condemn people to celibacy is doomed to failure and a recipe for sending people to hell. Paul permits every man to have his own wife to avoid this calamity. If a man that does not have the gift of celibacy, then he is trapped in a situation where he likely cannot avoid sin. God says that He would always provide a way out. Marriage is the way. A departing spouse cannot take away what God has granted as a means to avoid sin.
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