Satan's most useful ploy: the power of LUST

Masturbation and casual sex are excellent first steps to gradually get its participant used to being degraded, & enslaved to lust...

Once their introduced to the fleeing pleasures of sin, an important spiritual law kicks in: "the deceptiveness of sin hardness our hearts". As our hearts begin to harden, three things begin to happen, both individually and collectively:

1) we begin to justify our sin
2) we become more blind and resistant to God's truth
3) we become more susceptible to the next stage of sin