What about LUST? (I know you've been waiting!) Isn't lust the FUN part of love? Why call it a mortal sin?

Question

You know, George Burns, when asked if he thought sex was "dirty" replied "It is if you're doing it right."

I think people who think lust has no place in a love relationship have NEVER in their lives had the kind of howling, scratching, suck your toenails back into your body kind of sexual orgasm good old-fashioned LUST brings to the table. Or kitchen counter. Or hallway. Or, eventually, with much breakage of furniture and random claw marks, bedroom.

Where would love be without lust? Pining away in the moonlight writing bad poetry, that's where. It's time to celebrate the things that make life worth living and stop calling them SINS, don't you agree?

Answer 1

I agree. Raises our vibration, gives a sense of passion about life. Draws us together with it's potential right at our fingertips.

It isn't Lust that's the problem. It's the disregard that we have for the person we have engaged. It's the lack of heart involved.

Think you can Lust with Heart?

Does Lust preclude respect? Honor, or cherishing the experience with another?

Think this energy charge is simply put here for the players of the world?

How about if we STOP leaving it to them?

There is a very real sense of spiritual awareness coming to play with this very energy that we have judged as a diminished factor of ourselves. When it's a very true statement that it's the Heightened state of ourselves. And anyone who has felt it without judgement, knows it.

Life without Passion, is no way to live, and I dare say that we live without it at our own peril.

(((((((experience)))))))))))

EDIT: Thank-you, Eve! :-)))

Answer 2

I love lust.

Lust controls me. Not the ogling of a gorgeous woman kind, but rather that feeling you get when you find someone who is beautiful and they think you're beautiful too.

There is a lust that I have experienced that moved the furniture around. But in the end I discovered that it was fueled by an underlying anger. It was a game of control. And I wasted too much time entangled in it.

While I have felt that lust which is powered by something beautiful, I have yet to fulfill it, which I highly suspect won't happen till I have found the woman I am going to remain with.

But I know this. Whether the furniture gets moved or not, it will be more powerful than the other was. And it will be one that will be treasured.

Answer 3

But, but... writing bad poetry by moonlight is FUN! ;)

Most romantic relationship are well-served by a good shag every so often. Sex drive is natural, and while rose petals and candlelight have their place, they're not the end-all, be-all.

Heck, even lust outside a relationship isn't bad either. Kate Beckinsale running around in skin-tight clothing while fighting vampires? No harm in daydreaming, so long as it doesn't interfere with reality. Just because someone is "the object of your desire" doesn't mean that you have to treat them like a peice of meat instead of a human. It can easily be a "as well as" thing as opposed to an "instead of" thing.

Answer 4

Lust can be a mortal sin, since the actions taken by those with lust are not exactly near good actions. But if you have a healthy amount of lust then eventually it can turn into love, afterall liking someone is part of a form of lust and in order to love someone you must have a part of liking them. Just dont become obsessed to the point you become blinded and think its love when its just lust, if you have a normal amount of lust and it grows into real love then its not a sin. Truth is, who knows maybe one day someone will call the divine and they will tell us the real answer to everything. But i dont care much for these "sins" type stuff, to me its just a way to keep people in line and an excuse for your wrong doing since you can blame the sin on so many things.

Answer 5

Zowie! You made me blush!! Not that long ago, you would have been tarred, feathered, and run out of town for such writing...and perhaps, by the same good people who have responded to your question! Know-what-I-mean?

Lust is one of those things most people keep quiet...like pigging out on a quart of chocolate ice cream...we just don't talk about it. Not that it isn't delicious, delectable and 'feels' totally sinful...we just like to keep some things 'quiet'.

Another thing, that is important to know...not everybody has the same level of interest. There are people who have no interest in sex, whatsoever, and then there are those, like you who love it!! And, there's everything in between.

People who have no interest, or little interest, are amazed that you would write such a thing. They have no idea what you are talking about. Really! Poor souls. :]

Edit: Cosmicdancer...You said it right, girl!

Answer 6

I do agree wholeheartedly.

Our bodies were made to enjoy the pleasures of sex. I believe I think about it so much because I am not doing it.

What I wouldn 't give for a lover who is also a friend, and some old fashioned very heated sex.

Only a matter of time, in my mind.

Answer 7

Lust is part of being human. Nothing to be ashamed of.
It is certainly part of a balanced relationship.
People who deny their lust end up insane.
It needs to be accepted and then expressed in a mature and loving way.
The desire for unity can be expressed on many levels.

Answer 8

Sin is knowledge not lived my good friend, the Church doesn't know their own scriptures. I will not sit here and say I agree with the whole casual sex thing, no I will not because sex, to me at least, is sacred - what happens with sex is not only what is seen in the physical, there is yet mind and energy, this is where the problem comes with respect to the etheric. Those you have sex with you are connected to for life via the energy exchanged that took place within sex. The female draws from the male and the male is drawn from by the female. The mind becomes as one within intercourse. So from a spiritual perspective, the sex partners you have had can affect you continuously, via thoughts, their energy, and this can make it quite difficult to grow further.

But Lust itself, why would it be bad, within knowledge? But I don't agree with causal sex with a multitude of people, I believe in the sacredness of marriage and marriage is not ordained on earth, it is done within on a higher level of mind. But Lust itself, must be trained/tamed, in order that you can utilize it where it needs to be. Because the desire you must not become attached to, it is of the lower nature. But Most people, mostly males can't help this being positive in their lower centers (im referring to males being positive in their lower centers).

But truthfully all is sex, every single thing is sex, the atom is sex, if you know what sex is.

Guilt is caused by attachments to an ideal that is outside of what your reality is, you'd have no guilt if you know your nature and what you have to work on. You are a work in progress and are working on yourself. Guilt remains with those who are seeking to appease, looking for approval, you are your own judge. Work from where you are at with no excuses.

Answer 9

Coyotes know about both, the Howling and the pining at the moon. And your right, it's not a sin. It is a production of the nameless in the field of time. *sip*

Answer 10

I can't even imagine living without lust! Lust - my answer for "what is the purpose of life".