lechery
Excessive sexual desire
Lechery is excessive or unrestrained sexual desire, especially when acted upon indiscriminately.
The word carries moral judgment—a lecher pursues sexual gratification without regard for propriety or the feelings of others.
The tabloids catalogued his lechery in lurid detail.
Literary and somewhat old-fashioned, but still current when condemning predatory or compulsive sexual behavior.
Commercial sexual services
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- sodomyCriminalized sexual act
buggery · indecency · promiscuity · pornography · swinging · voyeurism · exhibitionism · obscenity
prostitution
Commercial sexual services
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
- fornicationIntercourse between unmarried persons
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
sodomy · buggery · indecency · promiscuity · pornography · swinging · voyeurism · exhibitionism · obscenity · lewdness
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- sinsgreed, lust, gluttony, deadly sin, sloth
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- forbidden actsblasphemy, idolatry, sacrilege, adultery, incest
- sexual sinsfornication, adultery, lust, lewdness, promiscuity
lecherychastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
celibacy · abstinence · continence · sexual purity · virginity