How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
I am sure that, had my love for her [his wife] been absolutely untainted with lust, she would be a learned lady today; for I could then have conquered her dislike for studies. I know that nothing is impossible for pure love. (1.4.6)
Yup, Gandhi says sex gets in the way of pure love. Love without sex is sometimes called platonic love.
Quote #2
Brahmacharya means literally conduct that leads one to God. Its technical meaning is self-restraint, particularly mastery over the sexual organ. (1.7.12)
To be a brahmachari means to be someone who abstains from sexual behavior…totally.
Quote #3
This was also the time when my wife was expecting a baby—a circumstance which, as I can see today, meant a double shame for me. For one thing I did not restrain myself, as I should have done, whilst I was yet a student. And secondly, this carnal lust got the better of what I regarded as my duty to study, and of what was even a greater duty, my devotion to my parents, Shravana having been my ideal since childhood. Every night whilst my hands were busy massaging my father's legs, my mind was hovering about the bed-room—and that too at a time when religion, medical science and commonsense alike forbade sexual intercourse. I was always glad to be relieved from my duty, and went straight to the bed-room after doing obeisance to my father. (1.9.2)
Because he's thinking about having sex with his own wife, Gandhi is distracted while he cares for his fatally ill father.