Man Says No Sex Is The Key To Living Forever

A Chinese man has abstained from making love to his wife for 17 years because he says he wants to live forever.

Chen Dong, who is in his 50s, of Chongqing city in China says he changed his way of living after a colleague told him he would live for a 1,000 years if he became a vegetarian and -- celibate.

"He believed it completely, and since 1989 he has had me prepare him only vegetarian meals, and stopped living with me in the same room", says his wife Yu Hui.

Chen believes he has found the secret of eternal life.

"Simple meals can clean my body, and an asexual life can keep my energy from becoming depleted", he says.

Chen filed and has now been granted a divorce, saying he wants a quiet life.

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