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Laura Gains
Since we are not only not to lust, but not cause others to stumble, what should happen concerning the fact that, like Sarai, some women are so beautiful, just the sight of their (even unmade-up) faces cause desires? We are in our Western culture only told not to dress scantily. Besides this, how do we meet society's demand to look good without causing temptation?
Samuel Asamoah
This is an Interesting question. But To be modest in today's society will often lead to being an outcast, because what the world is now calling modest is nearly naked (showing every part of our bodies withtight clothing).
Mike Joshua
The fact is that there is no excuse at all for anyone giving in to the temptation.
But. We all give into temptations each day which involve varying degrees of different sins. Small untruths. Small appropriations of property, food, money through actions which may not be illegal under law are nonetheless biblically -sin.
The difference is the consequences. The consequences of different sins are the defining factors of the human being's stance. Someone who tells a little white lie is not subject to the same public ridicule as someone who has an affair. This creates the situation in turn where we all then sin by having an opinion in judging it as more or less serious.
Men may be physically built differently in terms of desire but it takes two to do this and presuming its heterosexual sex it involves a woman.
To all of us in 1 Corinthians 10 v 12 it says, "be careful when you think you stand for you just might be sinking". None of us are beyond doing this sin, if you think you are above it be careful.
In love Christ gave so we might have no fear for we are all weak.
Walrus theCat
Please view my comment to the top-voted answer. This question is loaded, like "have you stopped beating your wife?"
Abram Cantu
I truly believe if a married man committing adultery with another person other then his wife, the other person must be doing the same regardless if she knows that he is married or not. She is still committing a sin with a married men. The bible states that only married couples should have sex.
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
So in essence it is equally the same. How can it be that more men commit adultery when it takes two. What is the charge for the women ? One plus one is two not one.
Jennifer Rothnie
It isn't so much that men face this "more" as that men and women on average face the temptation in different ways.
For guys, more often, they face sexual temptation more directly tied into physical urges and sexual needs. The also tend to be a bit more visual, wanting to 'see' something to fulfill needs whether in media or in person.
For women, more often, sexual temptation comes in the form of fantasized sexual relationships more tied into her emotional needs or other issues like poor self-image. Visual is slightly less important, it seems - for women on average the "idea" of the fantasy is central. So it could be visual, or art, etc. but it also could be reading erotica or engaging in an emotional affair with a co-worker that never crosses any 'physical' boundaries.
[And this doesn't make it better.]
One has only to browse what passes for women's entertainment - whether 50 Shades of Gray, Twilight, or even the obsession with hormones, 'the spark,' that Hollywood has, to realize women - even Christian women - are hardly immune to sexual temptation. Romance books, especially smutty ones, are the overall bestselling genre for a reason.
Danny Hickman
Why does it seem that way to who? Who said, 'it seems that sexual temptation is more of a problem for men than for women'?
I don't think it is. I've always liked women. There's nothing on earth that can compare to them, to me. They have a quality that is far more interesting than what she looks like in the nude. The times I got with a woman it was always her idea.
Except Faye, my wife. To this day, 50 years of marriage to her and I still haven't figured her out! She treats me as if my name is Melvin.. Or Stanley...
And I'm Danny Hickman!!
She was different! Still is...