voluntary celibacy

cluelessly then, i wonder what choosing a celibate life entails. does one suppress one's desires constantly, such struggling representative of one's moral strength? or perhaps the feelings go away, like when one fasts from food or some activity, the lack of which reinforces further estrangement from said activity? or perhaps one begins without these compulsions at all, emotionally spayed from the start?

or does one develop a fetish for young boys in white frocks?