It is the sexual act that perpetuates conditioned existence in this material world, which is why God advocates celibacy or continence.

In contact with matter, the soul indulges without hesitation in all sorts of sinful activities, often against its will. It is forced to commit sins without having desired them.

The Lord explains it in these words: It is lust alone. Born from contact with passion, then transformed into anger, it constitutes the devastating enemy of the world and the source of sin.

Lust is the greatest enemy of human beings.

The Lord warns us in these words: Three doors open to this hell: lust, anger, and greed. Let every sane person close them, for they lead the soul to its destruction.

In these words, the Lord describes the origins of demonic life. Those who seek to satisfy their lust, if they do not succeed, then anger and greed arise. Therefore, the sane human being, who does not want to fall into demonic species, must try to rid himself of these three poisons or enemies, capable of misleading the soul, plunging it into confusion and illusion, to the point of depriving it of any chance of freeing itself from the traps of material existence, and as the Lord says, of leading it to its ruin.

The right attitude, the ideal behavior, according to the spiritual principle.

Attachment is inherent in living beings. According to spiritual principles, the sexual act is reserved for married couples only, as it has only one function: procreation, and must never be used to arouse sense pleasure.

If we want to free ourselves from this material world and break the chains that hold us captive, we must eliminate this attachment. Otherwise, it will only continue to grow, and we will then have to be reborn continuously, again and again, either as a celestial being, a human being, or an animal.

This fundamental principle of ever-increasing attachments is the general tendency, but not that of the faithful servants of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The ideal is to reduce these attachments to the point of having none at all, for it is the sexual act linked to sense pleasure that binds the living being to the cycle of successive reincarnations. Blessed are the chaste celibates.