I am the Lord Your God, thou shalt not have strange Gods before me.
Idolatory and the Transvestic Fetish
In my experience one of the causes of my transvestic fetish
was an idolatry of the female form. My way out of the fetish addiction was
strongly connected to abandoning my idolatry and worshipping God from the heart
again.
Before I give you the details, my friend, I want you to know
that of course the female form is beautiful and I don’t advocate that you never
look and appreciate the beauty of a female. Just don’t do so in such a way that
you burn with lust, that it does not blind you to the deeper realities of your
existence of who you are and where you are going.
You shall love God with all your
heart all your mind and all your strength and you shall love your neighbour as
yourself..
We must not forget our real identity for a fraud based on a
lust. We must remember that we are men of
great value made in the image and likeness of God. To him is owed homage first before all
creatures and things.
Sowing Lust, Reaping the Disorder of Idolatory
Dwelling excessively on the image of the female is what the idolater
does. In his head he has made an image of an idealized female form to be the
supreme good. Everything else including his God takes second place. This does
not happen in a day or from one direct decision but slowly and imperceptibly by
the thoughts and acts and the values he ascribes to things in the world. It is
greatly speeded up by the imagery that goes on in the mind.
For surely, it is what comes out of our hearts that defiles
us. Jesus taught that we should not even look at a woman lustfully. Our Lord
Jesus Christ counselled that doing so is a sin of the same gravity of adultery.
As we sow so shall we reap. We have sown
bad images and thoughts in our mind and have reaped an addiction. We have
treated the image as a God, a councillor, a healer when it was none of those
things. Therefore let us cast off all dependency on the image and trust only in
God himself.
We become slaves to what we love, Love Wisely Then!
This malady, this affliction starts with Lust, an unhealthy
longing to possess the object of desire, rapidly descends to sexual addiction
and finally idolatry. The subject will dwell inordinately on the female form
seeing in it some kind of ultimate end. He will use the image as a panacea for
all his anger, anxieties and difficulties. Pornography masturbation and
fantasies will in the beginning be a soothing medication from difficulties.
Soon though he will lose control and eventually progress to idolatory. What do
we mean by idolatry? We mean that:
The transvestism
fetishist fantasizes about not only possessing what he desires but also
becoming what he desires.
In short his perverse desire to possess means that he
becomes possessed. St. Augustine said we have as many masters as we have vices.
Sin is slavery. The Transvestic Fetishist loses possession of himself because
he loves something more than himself. But the only object worthy of loving more
than himself is God (and through God his neighbour)
It seems to be a universal law that we become like what we
love. As the intensity of our love increases so do we become a slave to what we
love. We worship what we love. Let us be cautious then about what we love and
always give it an importance according to its true worth. God does not need our
worship but it is good for us to worship him as he is our greatest good.
Let us love wisely then, let our first thoughts be about God
and after true charity to our brothers and sisters.
An interesting opinion. Have you left behind the fetish?
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