Word: lustfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Baptist Jimmy Carter admitted to Playboy magazine that he had violated Christ's commandment against lust in the heart a time or two, it produced one of the sillier sideshows of the 1976 presidential campaign. Now John Paul II, in a public comment that drew on the very same New Testament text, has stirred an equally unholy...
Mental adultery with one's own wife? The remark caused no visible reaction among his listeners. But the apparently paradoxical idea of married adultery roused the Italian press and public considerably. Soon the "lust" affair all but overshadowed news from the international Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which, by coincidence, this month was discussing family and marital problems...
...Turin daily La Stampa: "Along comes Pope John Paul and tells us that we cannot even desire our own wives." To Gorresio, "Wojtyla" was "attempting to deny the claims of sex even within marriage." In Milan's usually staid Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Manganelli sought to have the lust laugh. Life is so hard for the adulterer, he wrote sarcastically: an endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed all these woes because "you can have infidelity...
John Paul has been talking about sex at most of his Wednesday audiences for more than a year. The troublesome phrase, in fact, was part of a discourse about the dignity of women and the need to distinguish, even in marriage, between sexual love and mere lust that makes sex objects of men and women alike...
...addition to the ever present greed and the lust for special advantage, there are a number of reasons for increased deception. The general relaxation of moral codes is doubtless one. Another is the steadily growing pressure for personal achievement in an increasingly competitive world. The incentive to cheat is heightened by the fact that society is more and more an aggregate of strangers dealing impersonally with each other. Finally, there is the snowballing impression that every body must be cheating...