That's my reply to my Methodist friends who insist that celibacy is the root of all our problems.
They get tongue-tied when I ask them if the problem of celibacy should be solved by having an affair if one's spouse is away for an extended period of time (say, a military deployment for 12 months -- that one always gets my retired army pal).
People outside the Church seem much more troubled by the celibacy of our Priests than we are. I'm not sure why it offends them so, but it does.
Perhaps they just can't fathom what a life without sex must be like.
They just can't get their brains around it, can they, the very concept of mastery of the body and its passions, which is the whole purpose of celibacy.
Catholicism is not the only religion that practices celibacy; Hindu Swamis in India also swear a vow of poverty and nonattachment to the body and all its passions and pleasures.