Lust

John Updike’s letters overflow with lust, ambition, guilt and shame

6 December 2025 9:00 am

‘Affairs are cruel, and if they are sin, they carry the punishment with them’, he wrote to one of the many women he cheated on throughout a long life

Seeking forgiveness for gluttony, sloth and other deadly sins

30 November 2024 9:00 am

The neurologist Guy Leschziner explores the medical conditions that might underlie extremes of human behaviour in a fascinating study that combines biology and psychology

Fancy that

3 October 2015 9:00 am

When women lust after blokes on telly it’s funny, not seedy