I do think the OP is interesting in the sense of IF one is looking at it from.a "who is at fault?" position.
From a Christian perspective, after the fall every person is born with a sin nature, therefore, will lust, and that is not limited to sexuality.
This next thing is important to get as, although I still haven't heard the podcast, believe it MAYBE what the OP is inferring, which would have some validity in scripture.
The introduction of laws just magnifies and multiplies sin if we look to it for cleansing from sin.
Romans 5:
13 To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law. 14 Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who is a pattern of the one to come.
Now here we go ...
Romans 5:
20 The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”[b] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature[d] a slave to the law of sin.
Basically, the law shows us what is in us and our inability to change at heart of our own. The more we try and change by the letter of the law, the more power we give to the sin nature and the more it multiplies.
Do we fault the law? Certainly not, as Paul said. The law is good, we are not.
I can catch truths in what atheist have to share, but it is a view that is shrouded in darkness. And many of us that claim to know God, can have the same view, even if just with a different twist.
I would imagine that both may take offense to that, but I'm not here to convert or condemn anyone. Just sharing the Christian perspective as I know it, realizing I am still learning and growing. Must say though, i feel pretty good with where I am at, all glory to God because apart from Him, His righteousness that He has given me, and his grace, my righteousness has an awful stank.
