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Sign in to savethumb|262px|Detail: Luxuria (Lust), in The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]
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Lust is one of the seven deadly sins in Christian tradition, representing excessive sexual desire or passion. It appears in religious and artistic works like those of Hieronymus Bosch as a concept that matters morally because Christian theology considers it a sin that can lead people away from virtue.
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thumb|262px|Detail: Luxuria (Lust), in The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by [[Hieronymus Bosch]]
Lust is an intense desire for something. 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.