Lust is a primal, natural instinct.
When someone is in a relationship, in order to be monogamous, they must exercise conscious resistance to lust.
That being said, how can monogamy be natural as people say? If remaining monogamous by definition involves resisting an emotion that is natural, then isn’t the act of monogamy by definition unnatural?
June 19, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Its natural to some people. Some people don’t need to repress those urges, but temptation is normal, no matter if its candy or the opposite sex.
June 19, 2008 at 10:20 pm
So if temptation is the natural instinct, isn’t abstaining always the unnatural act?
June 23, 2008 at 11:08 pm
You’d probably like the evolutionary psychology explanation of monogamy.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml
Read points two and three. The knowledge bomb has been dropped.