Religions tend to draw a distinction between passion and lust by further categorizing lust as an immoral desire and passion as morally accepted.
Lust is defined as immoral because its object or action of affection is improperly ordered according to
natural law and/or the appetite for the particular object (eg sexual desire) is governing the person's will and intellect rather than the will and intellect governing the appetite for that object.
Whereas passion, regardless of its strength, is maintained to be something God-given and moral, because the purpose, actions and intentions behind it are benevolent and ordered toward creation, while also being governed by the person's intellect and will. A primary school of thought on this is
Thomism, which speaks on the intellect, will and appetite, and draws from principles defined by
Aristotle. However, the exact definitions assigned to what is morally definite and ordered toward creation depend on the
religion. For example, religions based in
pantheism and
theism will differ on what is moral according to the nature of the "God" acknowledged or worshipped.
Lust - Wikipedia
Lust is an intense
desire for something.
[1][2] Lust can take any form such as the lust for
sexual activity (see
libido),
money, or
power; but it can also take such mundane forms as the lust for food (see
gluttony; as distinct from the need for food) or the lust for redolence (when one is lusting for a particular smell that brings back memories). Lust is similar to, but distinguished from,
passion, in that properly ordered passion propels individuals to achieve benevolent goals whilst lust does not.
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Proverbs 6:25
"
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
chamad: To desire, to covet, to take pleasure in, to delight in
Original Word: חָמַד
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chamad
Pronunciation: khaw-MAD
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-mad')
KJV: beauty, greatly beloved, covet, delectable thing, (X great) delight, desire, goodly, lust, (be) pleasant (thing), precious (thing)
NASB: covet, desirable, desired, desires, precious, attracted, coveted
Word Origin: [a primitive root]
1. to delight in
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Exodus 15;9 "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my
lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them."
nephesh: Soul, life, self, person, heart, creature, mind, living being
Original Word: נֶפֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: nephesh
Pronunciation: neh'-fesh
Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-fesh)
KJV: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it
NASB: soul, life, person, lives, himself, persons, yourselves
According to the DSM-III-R, the diagnostic criteria were defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior that began in early adulthood. It was defined by four of the following.
- Has used physical cruelty or violence for the purpose of establishing dominance in a relationship (not merely to achieve some noninterpersonal goal, such as striking someone in order to rob him/her).
- Humiliates or demeans people in the presence of others.
- Has treated or disciplined someone under his/her control unusually harshly.
- Is amused by, or takes pleasure in, the psychological or physical suffering of others (including animals).
- Has lied for the purpose of harming or inflicting pain on others (not merely to achieve some other goal).
- Gets other people to do what he/she wants by frightening them (through intimidation or even terror).
- Restricts the autonomy of people with whom he or she has a close relationship, e.g., will not let spouse leave the house unaccompanied or permit teenage daughter to attend social functions.
- Is fascinated by violence, weapons, injury, or torture.
This behavior couldn’t have been better explained by
sexual sadism disorder and it had to have been directed towards more than one person
Sadistic personality disorder - Wikipedia
Sadistic personality disorder does not actually refer to any sexual interest, and instead refers to the pervasive disregard for the well-being of other people. It is usually associated with a history of violence and criminality (which can include, but is not limited to sexual crimes).
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Congenital insensitivity to pain (
CIP), also known as
congenital analgesia, is an inability for a person to feel physical
pain due to various rare genetic conditions. CIP is caused by genetic mutations that affect the development or function of
nociceptors, the sensory neurons in the brain responsible for recognizing tissue damage. Common symptoms include damage to the oral cavity, repeated bone fractures, and sometimes the inability to sweat. Some forms of CIP are also correlated with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, or
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathies (HSAN) fall under the umbrella of CIP. Methods of treatment are still being explored. The epidemiology of CIP is unclear, given the relatively low number of reported cases.
Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia
Fine touch (or discriminative touch) is a sensory modality that allows a subject to sense and localize touch. The form of touch where localization is not possible is known as crude touch. The
dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway is the pathway responsible for the sending of fine touch information to the
cerebral cortex of the brain.
Crude touch (non-discriminating) is a sensory modality that allows the subject to sense that something has touched them, without being able to localize where they were touched (contrasting "fine touch"). Its fibres are carried in the
spinothalamic tract, unlike the fine touch, which is carried in the dorsal column.
[26] As fine touch normally works in parallel to crude touch, a person will be able to localize touch until fibres carrying fine touch (in the dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway) have been disrupted. Then the subject will feel the touch, but be unable to identify where they were touched.
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Channelopathy-associated congenital insensitivity to pain is a condition that inhibits the ability to perceive physical pain. From birth, affected individuals never feel pain in any part of their body when injured. People with this condition can feel the difference between sharp and dull and hot and cold, but they cannot sense, for example, that a hot beverage is burning their tongue. Pain is a vital signal that helps people avoid danger and injuries. People who cannot feel pain experience more injuries and may have shorter life expectancies.
Channelopathy-associated congenital insensitivity to pain: MedlinePlus Genetics
Variants (also called mutations) in the
SCN9A gene cause channelopathy-associated congenital insensitivity to pain. The
SCN9A gene provides instructions for making one part (the alpha subunit) of a
sodium channel
called NaV1.7. Sodium channels create an opening in the cell membrane to transport positively charged sodium atoms (sodium ions) into cells. Sodium ion transport play a key role in a cell's ability to generate and transmit electrical signals.
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The
SCN9A gene, which encodes the Nav1.7 sodium channel protein, is located on
Chromosome 2 at the locus
2q24.3 in humans. This gene plays a crucial role in the excitability of
peripheral neurons, particularly those responsible for sensing pain (nociceptors), and is also found in
olfactory sensory neurons.
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Chromosome 2 - Wikipedia
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