<p>Greetings! I'm wanting to clarify the more subtle manifestations of lust so I can recognise it in my life. Looking to where lust exists without the desire for sexual gratification. Would you say lust is:</p>
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<li>Altering the appearance in any way to go out in public (putting on 'nicer' clothes)</li>
<li>The yearning/desire to be attractive</li>
<li>Magnetic attraction between man and woman - situations where the heart beats faster, face becomes flushed and self <a href="faqs/psychology/1720-what-is-consciousness.html">consciousness</a> pervades without any sense of genital arousal</li>
<li>Is the state of yearning (for anything) a state of lust?</li>
<li>When in public, wanting to be noticed by men - not to have sex, but simply to be acknowledged. (In a culture where ascetic beauty is venerated and everything else overlooked)</li>
<li>Preoccupation with finding a beloved (Desiring union on all levels, beyond copulation)</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm thinking that lust requires a yearning/desire for something and I'm wondering if it encompasses all yearning or does that yearning need to have a sexual connotation to it...as in some sort of sexual act as its ultimate outcome.</p>
<ol start="1">
<li>Altering the appearance in any way to go out in public (putting on 'nicer' clothes)</li>
<li>The yearning/desire to be attractive</li>
<li>Magnetic attraction between man and woman - situations where the heart beats faster, face becomes flushed and self <a href="faqs/psychology/1720-what-is-consciousness.html">consciousness</a> pervades without any sense of genital arousal</li>
<li>Is the state of yearning (for anything) a state of lust?</li>
<li>When in public, wanting to be noticed by men - not to have sex, but simply to be acknowledged. (In a culture where ascetic beauty is venerated and everything else overlooked)</li>
<li>Preoccupation with finding a beloved (Desiring union on all levels, beyond copulation)</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm thinking that lust requires a yearning/desire for something and I'm wondering if it encompasses all yearning or does that yearning need to have a sexual connotation to it...as in some sort of sexual act as its ultimate outcome.</p>