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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (50475)	8/10/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

At the risk of disappointing some here, I do not have the OED in front of me (was that okay under your rules of disengagement, Edwarda, or should I delete even that?), but the dictionary I have gives as the first definition of lust as a noun to be "intense sexual appetite or desire." In that sense, there are definitely times when I unapologetically lust after my wife. The second definition is "uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire," which I would not approve of. It may be this second sense in which some people use the word here. Both senses of lust as a verb are of intense sexual desire or a passonte yarning or desire, with no suggestion of lack of control or illicitness in the definitions.