However, he specified that “lust makes fun of all this: it plunders, steals, consumes quickly, it does not want to listen to the other but only to its own need and pleasure; Lust judges all courtship boring, it does not seek that synthesis between reason, drive and feeling. that would help us lead our existence wisely.”
“The lustful person only looks for shortcuts: he does not understand that the path of love must be traveled slowly, and this patience, far from being synonymous with boredom, allows us to make our love relationships happy,” he remarked.
“The gift of sexual pleasure is undermined by pornography”
Later, the Holy Father noted that, “among all the pleasures of man, sexuality has a powerful voice,” since “it involves all the senses; It inhabits both the body and the psyche.”