This is the core of the transgression. Lust does not care if the object of desire is happy, fulfilled, or even willing in a holistic sense. Lust cares about the acquisition of a feeling. It is a reductionist drive that compresses the infinite complexity of a human soul into a two-dimensional fantasy.
Viewing others as tools for pleasure rather than as complex human beings with their own intrinsic value. The Spiritual and Psychological Impact Lustful Sin
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust - InterVarsity Christian Fellowship 15 Sept 2014 — This is the core of the transgression
: While commonly associated with sexual immorality, lust can also manifest as an intense, unbridled craving for other unreachable things like power, money (greed), or immortality. II. The Internal Struggle It is a reductionist drive that compresses the
Lustful sin is often described as a "fire of putrid desire" because it can lead to a cycle of addiction and spiritual desolation.
We are sexual beings living in a hypersexualized age. The battle against lust is not a battle against nature, but a battle for the integrity of our nature. To master the Lustful Sin is not to become a stone; it is to become a volcano —immense power, but channeled, directed, and erupted only at the right moment and place.
Lust is often dismissed as the most "natural" of the seven deadly sins, a mere biological urge mislabeled as a moral failing. In an age of sexual liberation, the very concept of lust as a sin seems archaic, a relic of repressed societies. However, to understand lust as a sin is not to condemn physical desire or intimacy, but to diagnose a specific disorder of the human will. The true sin of lust lies not in passion, but in reduction: it is the toxic habit of perceiving a person created with infinite dignity as a mere object for one’s own gratification. Therefore, lust is a particularly insidious sin because it simultaneously promises ecstasy while delivering isolation, distorting the very nature of love into a transaction.