If I had allowed myself to lust for women when I was younger, I'd be married and have a life right now. That and honor thy mother and father had totally ruined my life.
We were designed to be a certain way, not enslaved to a book of fairy tales written for a primitive people who used to live in an exceedingly small dot on the map thousands of years ago.
Sin is sin, no matter how many Hail Marys you do. Repentance is irrelevant.