There are few opportunities for direct interactions between the community of monks and the young women of a congregation. Any distraction from the practice of meditation and observation of the precepts is overtly discouraged. Men in Thailand are encouraged and rewarded for spending a limited period of time as a monk as a rite of passage. They must abstain from drinking, smoking and sex as a acknowledgement of their serious intention to learn self discipline towards growth on the path of joining the adult community.
In more conservative forms of Buddhism, desire is controlled by focusing on the development of internal aversion to the object or goal that is most deeply desired.
