Lasciviousness is linked to fieryness.
Lasciviousness is the inclination to carnal desires. It is about sexual appetite or uncontrolled lust. According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) , the term comes from the Latin lascivia .
Lasciviousness implies the inability to control the libido , which can lead to an obsession . A lascivious person looks at others in a morbid manner or with sexual intentions. For example: “They both spent hours looking at each other lasciviously until they melted into a passionate kiss to get lost in the night.”
The term is also related to shamelessness and lust . Religions , therefore, condemn lasciviousness and associate it with improper and sinful behavior.
Characteristics of lasciviousness
Lasciviousness can be understood as an inclination to surrender to passion and the enjoyment of eroticism . Lasciviousness usually leads to coquetry and flirting in pursuit of satisfying carnal desire with an intimate relationship.
It is possible to associate the notion with a high level of sexual arousal . In some cases, the impulse to the pleasures of the flesh can be linked to a perversion .
It should be considered that, in the context of a love game, provocation or courtship, a lascivious look is not strange or uncomfortable. However, when there is no intimacy or the sexual appetite is not shared, lasciviousness can become offensive, rude or violent as it escapes socially expected behavior.
Suppose a man has a fantasy and aspires to have a love affair with a stranger. This is how he intends to start a romp with a woman who is in the same train car as him. In this way he makes an insinuation that is not answered, since the passenger is not intending an affair nor does she have any intention of meeting anyone. If the subject continues to show his lasciviousness, this behavior can become pressure or an attempt at coercion . In the event that the woman is in a vulnerable situation, this eroticization of the situation can even become dangerous.
An unbridled passion is born from lasciviousness.
The view of religion
Christianity , for example, tries to prevent adolescents and young people from falling into what, according to its moral parameters, is lewd behavior. Some Christian groups even consider that dancing is within said group, especially when it is practiced in nightclubs, since it includes bodily contact between different people in a context of lack of control, given the lowering of defenses generated by alcohol consumption. and in combination with the intensity of the music and the inclination of the dance floor.
The Catholic religion maintains that lasciviousness can control the minds of human beings and turn them into weak and sickly beings, who refuse to surrender to Christ , instead putting themselves in the hands of behavior that the Church considers contrary to its principles. According to them, God himself created sexuality, but he did not do so for the enjoyment of his own body, but to unite two people through marriage and ensure that they feel the need to procreate.
Anyone who wants to embrace Christianity only has to comply with a series of commands, such as bending to the will of a being who has never dared to show himself to people, repressing any sexual desire that escapes the limits of marriage. , not feeling attraction to individuals of the same sex and, also very important, rejecting material luxuries. It is very likely that pedophilia and the building of a city of gold will also be considered lust, and will be added in future revisions of Christian precepts.
From a broader point of view, lasciviousness is considered as the immoderate appetite for something ; That is, it is not necessarily related to sexuality. In this way, it is possible to find the term in a materialistic context, denoting a person's almost harmful desire for a good.
Lasciviousness is associated with seduction and temptation.
Lasciviousness and hypersexuality
The disorder characterized by a sudden increase in libido and the uncontrollable desire to have sex is very often known as hypersexuality or sex addiction . Although it is possible that it appears due to certain medical complications or the intake of certain drugs, its origin is generally unknown. It is known, on the other hand, that some personality disorders (such as bipolar) can alter the sexual behavior of some individuals, just as consuming alcohol and other addictive substances does.
Some specialists in the field of sexology do not accept hypersexuality as an addiction , and tend to associate it with behavior typical of impulsivity and compulsivity . In general, those who suffer from this disorder tend to visually stimulate their sexual desire more than usual, progressively reducing the pleasure of orgasm; Frustration inevitably leads to the search for a new experience, which compensates the person for the deficiencies of the previous one.
It is worth mentioning that a large percentage of patients diagnosed with hypersexuality have suffered from strong sexual repression during their childhood or adolescence. On the other hand, after a certain age group, the reasons are usually associated with the fear of losing sexual vigor .