[GlockThe Vote]

I have been w my spouse for ten years and still ust after her due to our emotional connection. If you prudes and purists can grasp that, screw you.

[Mad Dawg]

I don’t think you’re describing “lust” as the term is used by the Catholic Church.

[SkyPilot]

I understand your point, and I admire your spirited defense of that which you treasure so, your wife. This isn't my thread, I only commented on it. The premise of the thread was also based on a false notion (in my opinion) - that marital "lust" for ones spouse (given in marriage) "could be" the same as lust for some stranger off the street.

While it is true that crimes can take place within the confines of marriage (i.e. forcible rape), and there are some spouses who insist on making sex about degradation instead of lovemaking, I thought the author of this piece attacked sexuality with too broad of stroke, and too quickly out of the gate.

Your reaction is, I think, a good one: you highly treasure your relationship with someone you love deeply, and defend it vehemently.

[dangus]

Before telling people to “screw you,” you might consider whether there is a communication problem. Our society no longer condemns lust, and so there is no longer an understanding that lust does NOT mean mere sexual desire. Lust is to sex what gluttony is to eating: an intemperate, immodest, illicit, uncontrolled, or selfish exaggeration of normal, healthy and functional bodily motivations.