Bound in Love

Inordinate desire, especially venereal pleasures. The order of reason consists in its ordering everything to its end in a fitting manner. When the lower powers are strongly moved towards their objects, the result is that the higher powers (reason and will) are hindered and disordered in their acts.

Scriptural/Doctoral

• it is listed among the “works of the flesh” in Galatians 5:19
• “You are bought with a great price: glorify and bear God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:20
• “Beauty has deceived you, and lust has perverted your heart.” Daniel 13:56

Daughters

• blindness of mind: failed in simple understanding what is truly good
• thoughtlessness: perverting our minds so we will not remember just judgment
• inconstancy: a man is hindered from doing what his reason ordered to be done
• rashness: blocks our ability to take counsel
• self-love: regards the pleasure which a man desires inordinately
• hatred of God: because God forbids this inordinate pleasure
• love of this world: assigning the carnal pleasures of this passing world an undue weight
• abhorrence of a future world: being held back by carnal pleasures he cares not to obtain spiritual pleasures since they are distasteful to him

Self-examination from Episcopalian St. Augustine Prayer book (not exactly Thomistic, but useful)

LUST: Lust is the misuse of sex for personal gratification, debasing it from the holy purpose for which God has given it to us.

Unchastity

• Violation of the Church’s marriage laws.
• Refusal to fulfil the purpose of Holy Matrimony in the bringing forth and giving adequate care to children, or to take our full share in the responsibilities or work involved.
• Sexual indulgence outside matrimony, in thought or act, alone or with others.

Immodesty

• Stimulation of sexual desire in others by word, dress or actions; or in oneself by reading, pictures, or fantasies.

Prudery

• Fear of sex or condemnation of it as evil in itself.
• Stimulation of excessive and harmful curiosity by undue secrecy.