is views differed from those in the mainstream.
Augustine contended that Adam and Eve's original sin, for example, was not eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil but was the sex between them. Augustine argued that Adam and Eve's sin constituted disobedience to God and that their shame at their nakedness was the result of having sex; in Letters of the Pelagians 1.31-32, he asked, "did not they--he in the open, she in the hidden impulse--perceive those members to be disobedient to the choice of their will, which certainly they ought to have ruled like the rest by their voluntary command? " (Watson 178). However, he made a distinction between the sexual act itself and the lust that accompanied it, noting that it was the latter that made the act wrong. In fact, he wrote to the "pious virgins raped during the sack of Rome" that they could not be polluted by someone else's lust (Portalié). He stated that chastity is "a virtue of the mind, and is not lost by rape, but is lost by the intention
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