According to Osho, celibacy arose not from spirituality but from the male ego’s insecurity before woman’s greater sexual stamina. Feeling mostly impotent by comparison, men sought an alternative power: purity-as-power. Religions institutionalized this ego-trip, turning celibacy into a means to dominate, moralize, and control others—mistaking repression for holiness and promising omnipotence where fear and inferiority actually operate.
Men felt weak about sex, so they made celibacy a holy rule to feel powerful and in control.