nik wrote:Ardhanariswar wrote:tell me, if masturbation is purely lust, then is eating ice cream purely gluttonous?
that is my answer to your questions.
Eating enough ice cream to quell the appetite of its function (reparing the body) certainly is not a sin. Gordging yourself exceeds its function. Likewise with sex the purpose of sex is to reproduce, its the going beyond the functional design of sex that is in question.