The Conferences, Conference 19
Can Lust Be Treated Like Anger?
The cure for the other ailments, that is, anger, vexation and impatience, has been shown to consist in setting their opposites against them. So we would also like to learn what sort of treatment we ought to use against the spirit of sexual immorality. I mean, can the fire of lust be quenched in the same way as in those other cases, by picturing to ourselves still greater enticements and the things that stir it up? For we believe that it is utterly fatal to chastity not only to increase the incentives to lust within us, but even to touch them with a passing glance of the mind.