Skip to content We tend to equate lust with physicality—with the flesh. But it’s actually mental as well. That is, sexual vice harms the intellect. After all, humans are composite …
"Lust is frustrating and demoralizing because it robs your reason of its proper role in ordering the passions." Where is the line between lust "makes you stupid" and lust "reveals that you ARE stupid?" Ironically, it takes right reason to free yourself from lust while lust robs you of that reason freedom requires. The same could be said for any of the passions, all of which, rightly ordered, are …More
"Lust is frustrating and demoralizing because it robs your reason of its proper role in ordering the passions." Where is the line between lust "makes you stupid" and lust "reveals that you ARE stupid?" Ironically, it takes right reason to free yourself from lust while lust robs you of that reason freedom requires. The same could be said for any of the passions, all of which, rightly ordered, are themselves good. Br. Jordan Zajac, O.P. brings in Sonnet 129 to help w this article. Well done. Shakespeare's Sonnets, taken together, are a school for ordering the passions. "Sin makes you stupid." ~ GK Chesterton
