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I would not say this is not an admirable sentiment, but I do feel that you underrate the power of lust, not only to dominate the human mind, but even to distort the process of thought and perception till the person who has given in to it is literally incapable of seeing his/her actions for what they are. "Discussions" are, in my view, simply not enough to enlighten a mind in the grip of lust, because, in their case, the faculty of reason and argument becomes simply an instrument of the lust itself. This is, in my view, what happened to the clerical writer mentioned by Mr.Lee, Father McNeill: after a certain point, investigation into theology ceased being a challenge to the truth for its own sake, and became a continuous effort to defend, justify and conceal the fact of lust in action. His theological studies, like Wilhelm Reich's psychological studies, had become purely the tool of an obsession.

And what is really terrible about lust is that it feeds on genuine, natural and necessary human emotions. This is why a certain number of works of art of real merit have been produced whose subject is not only lust, but perverted lust: the literary work of Anais Nin and Pauline Reage, the photography of David Hamilton (paedophile) and Robert Mapplethorpe (homosexual sadomasochist). In other words, it is a perversion in every sense of the word; it takes natural human energies and the natural human love for beauty, and makes of them the energies that power a hollow yet insatiable greed. The proper image for lust is the zombie, the dead man that walks; because lust destroys the human personality from the inside, and leaves only a furious activity without real humanity within.