The lust to seduce states of innocence is not the lust to deflower nor the lust to rape, but is a particular and separate lust by itself. It is found especially in guileful men. The women who appear to them as embodiments of innocence are ones who regard the evil of licentiousness as an enormous sin, and who thus devote themselves to chastity and at the same time piety. It is for these women that they burn. In Roman Catholic countries the women are nuns. Because they believe these nuns to be embodiments of innocence beyond all others, they regard them as choice and exquisite objects for their lust. Being men of guile, in order to seduce these women, whether nuns or others, they first devise stratagems, and after they have infused their character with them, without restraint of conscience they put them as though naturally into execution. Their stratagems are principally pretenses of innocence, love, chastity and piety. By these and other deceptions they work their way into the women's interior friendship and so into their love; and by various persuasions and at the same time suggestions they turn this then from a spiritual love into a natural one, and afterwards by incitements into a fleshly, carnal one, and at that point possess them at their pleasure. When they have accomplished this, they rejoice in heart and laugh at the women they have violated.