Once Upon a Dream and the Nature of Love at First Sight

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“Love at first sight” is often dismissed as nothing more than lust. But lust is not the primal attraction to the opposite sex, it is a disordered desire toward the wrong thing or for only personal gratification, whereas proper primal desire of the opposite sex is not only natural, but good. A person who is corrupted with lust can only see another human being as a material object for masturbation. A person who feels a well-ordered, primal sexual desire for a human being is drawn to them in a physical way, but it is so much more than that. How does one distinguish lust from love? And what is…

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