What is the difference between pleasure, indulgence and temptation?

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What is the difference between pleasure, indulgence and temptation? Answer. Pleasure, the way it is used generally, is that the particular activity that gives pleasure. Temptation is the desire to do that activity.
And indulgence is the engagement in that activity. So, for example, there is sexual pleasure. So when we refer to sexual pleasure, that refers to the activity.
So then we can use the word, don’t indulge in sexual pleasures. That means that one should not engage in that in an immoral way, anti-scriptural way. Then there is temptation.
Temptation means one feels tempted by the sexual pleasure. And so, for example, there may be provocative posters or images in us that act as temptations for us. So in that sense, these three words refer to three distinct aspects.
Pleasure refers to the activity as it exists. And as we can see that it gives pleasure, so it refers to the activity. Temptation refers to that which provokes us towards that activity.
And indulgence is when we engage in that activity. So in order to avoid indulgence in any particular pleasure, it’s best that we stay away from the temptation. In this way, by analysis, we can understand these three terms.
That what we have to do is, to avoid indulgence in pleasure, we minimize or avoid the temptations.