Editing Seven deadly sins (section)

=== Lust ===
{{Main|Lust}}Lust or lechery is intense longing. It is usually viewed as intense or unbridled [[sexual desire]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lust|title=Definition of LUST|website=www.merriam-webster.com|access-date=4 May 2016|archive-date=15 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715092256/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lust|url-status=live}}</ref> which may lead to [[fornication]] (including [[adultery]], [[rape]], or [[bestiality]]), and other sinful and sexual acts; however, lust can also denote other forms of unbridled desire, such as for money or power. [[Henry Edward Manning]] explains that the impurity of lust transforms one into "a slave of the [[Devil in Christianity|devil]]".<ref name="Manning"/>

Lust is generally thought to be the mildest capital sin.<ref name="DLSintro652">[[Dorothy L. Sayers]], ''Purgatory'', Introduction, pp. 65–67 (Penguin, 1955).</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf62BQAAQBAJ|title=William Blake's Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy: A Study of the Engravings, Pencil Sketches and Watercolors|last=Pyle|first=Eric|date=31 December 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476617022|language=en}}</ref> Thomas Aquinas considers it an abuse of a faculty that humans share with animals, and sins of the flesh are less grievous than spiritual sins.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VeP7kg-blnIC&q=lust%2520summa%2520theologica&pg=PA1819|title=Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)|last=Aquinas|first=St Thomas|date=1 January 2013|publisher=Cosimo|isbn=9781602065604|language=en}}</ref>