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2012-05-04 Sanguesa, Iglesia Santa María la Real, Navarra, Spain 0012

Luxuria toads and snakes are her companions

 

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, a Christian's heart is lustful when venereal satisfaction is sought for either outside wedlock or, at any rate, in a manner which is contrary to the laws that govern marital intercourse. Pope John Paul II states that lust is totally different from the natural desire for sexual love of man and woman.

Lust is considered by Catholicism to be a disordered desire for sexual pleasure, where sexual pleasure is sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes In Catholicism, sexual desire in itself is good, and is considered part of God's plan for humanity. However, when sexual desire is separated from God's love, it becomes disordered and self seeking. This is seen as lust.

In Roman Catholicism, lust became one of the Seven deadly sins, taking the place of extravagance (Latin: luxuria). This change occurred because in the Romance languages, the cognates of luxuria (the Latin name of the sin) evolved to have an exclusively sexual meaning;[citation needed] the Old French cognate was adopted into English as luxury, but this lost its sexual meaning by the 14th century. Romanesque art, lust is often represented by a siren or a naked woman with breast bitten by snakes.

 

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