Lust: The first, and the best, of the Seven Deadly Sins. 

Why?

Because the first sin happened when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden, and after that, they knew they were naked.  Honestly, it wasn’t that they were naked that was the problem, it was the knowledge of their nakedness — and hence their difference and what that meant — that was the problem. 

Honey, no one cares if you’re naked if there isn’t going to be some naughty business on the way. 

(And really, what the hell was God up to anyway making Man and Woman with all those different bits and pieces, then plunking them into an Eden with the supposed goal of keeping them pure?  Seriously.  That’s just soooooo “Blue Lagoon” it’s kinda embarrassing. And then God puts a tree in the middle of the garden, laden with plump, juicy fruit-of-your-choice, adds a smart-ass asp, and voila, it’s “Porky’s” with less profanity.  And I bet if I think hard enough, I can come up with a third teen coming-of-age movie reference to slot in here.)

But really, all the other cardinal sins bow before Lust.  And well they should — for so many of them are really just derivatives of Lust. (Pride will claim that he’s the first deadly sin, but then he would, wouldn’t he?”)

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