In other words, while the particular aspect of temptation that we might describe as ‘lust’ is here denoted by the female form, with regard to a heterosexual orientation (or what could be called the ‘straight male gaze’) in what historically has been portrayed as a cisgendered person, the principle that is at work, and that is more significant symbolically, involves the subjugation of the spiritual nature of humankind by a baser, animalistic urge; and the attempt on the part of the saint to resist that subjugation.