Lust is the heart-hunger in me that denies and disavows those made in the image of God, whether it’s another man or another woman, and reduces them to what I can get out of them to feed (and fill) my hungry heart right now. This means that by nature, our lusts twist, devour, consume, and use others for our own benefit. This is true whether we’re viewing a computer screen or watching an illicit DVD, whether we are in real time, in cyber time, in a chat room–or just in our hearts and heads in our own fantasies.

– John Freeman, “Hide or Seek”