Notes about Sexuality and Religion

P216

…Augustine bases much of his view of evil on his analysis of sex. The carnal custom, grown “as strong, almost, as nature” (ref), is telling proof for Augustine of the vitiation of man’s will. Sexual concupiscence is not a sin itself, but is the punishment of sin, the witness of sin, the occasion of sin, and the means by which the Original Sin is passed on like a hereditary disease. Man inherits the disorder of lust from the sin of the primal parents, a disorder necessarily operative in each procreative act.