‘Dear God, please forgive my lustful thoughts. Please do not let them stand in my way. Please don’t let me squander all the time you have graciously given me on these thoughts.
I don’t know if parents, for the most part, comprehend the damage they can do to a child’s psyche when they raise them to think of sex as ‘dirty, wrong, bad’ etc. Sexual feelings are an ingrained part of us, one of the basics, like pain, fear, basic core responses to ourselves & the world around us, & so no matter how much anyone may want to not have these feelings &/or needs, we can’t, they’re just there.
Of course we can choose to not act on them, in some cases that should be the correct reaction (pedophilia for ex) but our brain is hardwired to have the feelings regardless, so you then have someone who is going to, at best, hate themselves, at worst, well there’s way too many options there, most of them not good, for the person, or for other people
