Lust objectifies people and leaves them empty.

Lust always takes more than it gives.
It promises satisfaction, but delivers emptiness.

Peter names the pattern:

“Having eyes full of adultery… unable to cease from sin.”
2 Peter 2:14

Lust turns people into objects.
It trains the heart to consume instead of cherish.
It numbs compassion and inflames appetite.
It erodes dignity, both yours and theirs.

The tragedy isn’t only moral; it’s personal.
Lust starves the soul.
The more it gets, the emptier it becomes.

Paul writes:

“Treat younger women as sisters, with all purity.”
1 Timothy 5:2

Purity restores sight.
It returns humanity where lust had reduced people to shadows.
It makes relationships possible: real ones, built on honor instead of hunger.

Lust shrinks you.
Love enlarges you.

When you stop consuming people, you finally learn how to see them.