ad in the Old Testament: &quot;<i>You shall not covet your neighbour's wife</i>&quot;
(Exodus: 20,17; Deuteronomy: 5,21). According to the New Testament, &quot;<i>Every one who
looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart&quot;</i>
(Matthew, 5: 28). Christian teachings are full of high moral directives that provide for a
clean and chaste human life. One of the most powerful of such exhortations is found in St.
Paul's Letter to the Thessalonians (4:3-8) in which he say