The world we live in subjects us to unrelenting temptation.
Such constant, formidable pressure applied over an extended period is very difficult to withstand.
This person faces not an occasional and temporary desire that can be dismissed with relative ease but the pervading influence of his entire environment.
In that atmosphere and among those who create it, even someone ordinarily immune to such temptations finds that over the course of time, as “the eye sees,” eventually “the heart desires.”
—Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz