Writer: Messalinainthemists
Subject: Dancing With The Devil
Link: Tumblr / 20.09.2025
Dancing With The Devil
One isn’t required to engage in specific, required wicked and perverse sensual behavior to do just that. It begins and ends within each of us individually … what we desire when it comes to things sensual, sexual and even spiritual may not be what we do because it isn’t it true all of us already have our own facades we present to those around us, even to those closest to us.
A wife can sit next to her spouse lusting a desiring a nearby handsome male or beautiful woman while her husband is unaware. Men do the same. It is what happens every day, one of those events that occur, we often don’t share for whatever reason, no matter how trivial. Isn’t it true we “dance with the devil” all the time (yes, all the time because lust and desire can emerge even in not just unexpected moments but in sacred moments when suddenly we find ourselves admired by another or something occurs which triggers us sensually.
It happens not because we are “sinners” in the religious sense. These events occur, and we react as we do because we are created to be sensual and sexual with a mind which isn’t limited to things expected nor the limits of our “world”. Bluntly stated: we often engage in sexual events in our mind via fantasy, etc, even when we don’t want it to happen. When women dress for the day, for work, for whatever, how often do we do so with “being admired” in mind, where we feel confident, adequate, etc.?
Yet we are told we should be (and we do feel for any number of reasons) anxious and apprehensive, angst-filled and sometimes angry when we shouldn’t, because to lust and desire is normal. Xianity demands I “fear when I feel” when, while we are challenged to be prudent when it comes to our personal response, there is no need to feel the “guilt” demanded by the religions and society. Yet we do.
As I “Dance with the devil,” I now see that guilt is one of the enhancers that intensify my indulging if I do so, rather than a sudden barrier demanding I “Don’t do it!” I might or might not, but not because I’m fearful… because I know that it’s normal for me to lust and desire. I find I fantasize all the time, as well as indulge in sensual and sexual play if I wish. In all this and more, amn’t I dancing with the devil?
I’m sitting across from a Christian wife who is sharing about her sensual thoughts, her “sinful” lusts and desires and actions, and with the “guilt”… she doesn’t want to “Dance with the devil.” But she is, knows she is, is enjoying doing so and doesn’t want to stop becausse she acknowledges she can’t. None of us can. So why fight it? Why not respond positively? How are you “Dancing with the devil”?