Some folks praise lust* and wholly embrace it, others condemn lust and wish to purge themselves of it. Neither approach seems the wisest to me.
I think lust can be either life-affirming or life-denying -- depending on how skillfully you deal with it.
As a life-affirming emotion, it can give us the energy to live more fully and more passionately -- if at times only in regards to its object. As a life-denying emotion, it can give us the energy to ignore everything but it and what we're specifically attracted to. For instance, we might ignore someone's personality to focus only on their body.
But what do you think? How do you handle lust?
*I'm defining "lust" here as mere "sexual desire", rather than as "excessive sexual desire", although it is sometimes defined in the latter way.
I think lust can be either life-affirming or life-denying -- depending on how skillfully you deal with it.
As a life-affirming emotion, it can give us the energy to live more fully and more passionately -- if at times only in regards to its object. As a life-denying emotion, it can give us the energy to ignore everything but it and what we're specifically attracted to. For instance, we might ignore someone's personality to focus only on their body.
But what do you think? How do you handle lust?
*I'm defining "lust" here as mere "sexual desire", rather than as "excessive sexual desire", although it is sometimes defined in the latter way.