# What has lust made you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641 "2005-07-28T20:31:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/21 "2005-07-29T14:22:36Z")
things…disturbing…unspeakable things… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/22 "2005-07-29T14:37:51Z")
Accompany an ex-girlfriend whom I found crying in her drink at a bar on what would have been her honeymoon had her fiance not ditched her three days before the wedding. The trip was booked, I had the time to take and I we were both drunk enough that I could talk her into taking the trip, only with me instead of him. Not halfway through the first day, I remembered all the annoying things she did to make me break up with her, but I played nice, and stuck it out for the team. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/23 "2005-07-29T15:22:27Z")
Boardroom. 'nuff said… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/24 "2005-07-29T15:30:42Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > …mixed tape. :nods violently in recognition: What do kids do today - e-mail playlists? I join the “get married” crew - and although I don’t regret it (was about to type ‘have never regretted it’ but there have been days) I still can’t help hearing in my head “So now I’m praying for the end of time, to hurry up and arrive…” ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/25 "2005-07-29T15:38:51Z")
Screw around with a guy who I knew was of the pittable Nice Guy type and ended up hurting him really badly because I was in no way in love with him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/26 "2005-07-29T15:49:37Z")
> [@MrJackboots](#): > > It’s a long story, but the short of it is that I crawled out of bed at 4:00 in the morning, the day before a final, and stood around for an hour in a foggy San Francisco morning to ask a girl out. In metered verse.It didn’t work so well (also a long story). While I have no idea of what this description is about, I can say that I fully understand what lust can do to one, especially in the Bay Area. Many of the most negative things that have happened to me have been because of lust. “Metered verse?” HA! I wrote sonnnets! (Perhaps the same thing.) At least you didn’t get arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/27 "2005-07-29T16:22:42Z")
I ran out into the rain, naked. And danced around. In a public park. I wanted to show him that I was this wonderful free spirit that he needed in his mundane life. He fell for it! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/28 "2005-07-29T16:40:14Z")
Drive 800 miles round trip every weekend for three months to be with a guy who’d dumped me almost a year earlier. Yeah. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/29 "2005-07-29T16:59:03Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > While I have no idea of what this description is about, I can say that I fully understand what lust can do to one, especially in the Bay Area. Many of the most negative things that have happened to me have been because of lust. “Metered verse?” HA! I wrote sonnnets! (Perhaps the same thing.) At least you didn’t get arrested. This is true. I did ask permission first. Like I said, it’s a long story (maybe one for the Pit when I get some spare time, actually). ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/30 "2005-07-29T19:56:22Z")
Well I’ve done more than my share of unprotected sex due to lust… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/31 "2005-07-29T20:06:17Z")
Masturbate. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/32 "2005-07-29T20:26:59Z")
I must take the fifth on this one… ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/33 "2005-07-29T22:23:51Z")
Just about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life. One of which changed my life irrevocably for the worse. ---
**Author:** ![Farmwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8dc957/32.png) [@Farmwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmwoman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/34 "2005-07-30T01:04:57Z")
I ditched my girlfriends on a cruise to get a rugburned back from a fine sommelier. _I know it’s too late, but I’ll know next time…to mix some water with the wine_ ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/35 "2005-07-30T03:09:15Z")
Quit smoking. Nine days so far, and counting. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/36 "2005-07-30T06:08:33Z")
> [@The Controvert](#): > > The power of sexual attraction can force its will on even the most clear-headed, rational person. What (extremely unusual) action have you taken that you normally wouldn’t, which thoroughly demonstrates how lust made you its bitch? Although not unusual, I’ve masturbated. That’s about as exotic as my acting-on-lust has gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/37 "2005-07-30T07:13:43Z")
Well, I’ve let women make marks on me that took days to heal; I’ve driven through California’s sierra foothills on a motorcycle, in the winter, with snow approaching; I paid a woman’s $1000 phone bill; I’ve several times risked my livelihood, and once – more than that. Of course, I thought I was doing it for love, but who the hell knows the difference anyway? – Nametag, who perhaps ought to drink more and think less until this mood goes away ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/38 "2005-07-30T14:45:17Z")
Married a woman who turned out to not care for sex all that much, then proceeded to screw anything in a skirt during the 20 years of marriage because of it. Yeah, I was a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/39 "2005-07-30T15:28:29Z")
> [@garius](#): > > Lust once made me a rather nice cake. Yeah, but you haven’t lived until you’ve tried one of Gluttony’s Boston cream pies. And Pride does a pretty tasty cherry cobbler. ---
**Author:** ![Rock-n-Rolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@Rock-n-Rolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rock-n-Rolga)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641/40 "2005-07-30T16:16:33Z")
The fallout is still in process, but it looks like I have killed a really cool 6-year friendship and probably torpedoed all respect given to me by this guy’s inner circle, too. In short, I probably better not show my face around this group for a while. And by “for a while” I really mean “ever, ever again.” ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-lust-made-you-do/314641.md?page=1)