Thanks for clarifying.

I struggle to understand what you mean by your fast food metaphor. The issue isn't a kind of hunger like that. God is enough. I suppose I should and could be about more work advancing the kingdom. Baptizing, preaching, etc. I'd like to do that more than go around meeting women. On the other hand, one of the more invertebrate ideas I've had is that somehow meeting a woman is going to be amazing. But they're people too. It's just like meeting another person. No worse, no better.

I think there's potentially an unhealthy revulsion from women in the name of purity or continence. And it involves cowardice. Someone is afraid of vulnerability, and so they avoid women, all the while dressing up their fear in robes of religion to play the saint, while the devil grins at the feet of the gown. Meeting women is just like meeting anyone else. We have to simply be aware of what we're feeling. But a fear of being aroused is probably not good. Joseph, when he fled Potipher's wife, did not flee because he was aroused. The man eventually married. But he ran in order to avoid dishonoring his master, and to honor God. If the woman were not married, then perhaps he would still flee, because it was a secretive act of darkness and Joseph would want to be open and noble. Idk.

Now I'm on one of my rants, eh?