Parshas Achrei Mos and Kedoshim (this week and last week’s Parsha) enumerate the entire list of Arayos. I counted 4 times the word: בֵﬠוֹתּ וֹת “abominations” in the last few Pesukim of Parshas Achrei Mos. In Parshas Kedoshim we have the word: הָמִּז (depraved) twice.
In Parshas Kedoshim we have (depravity) לַאלֵלַּחְתּ ץֶרָאָה הָאְלָמוּ ץֶרָאָה הֶנְזִת אֹלְו הָּתוֹנְזַהְל ˃ְתִּבּ תֶא הָמִּז יט כט. Don’t profane your daughter! So many derogatory words describing Z’nus as the lowliest and most disgusting and repulsive activity. At the end of Parshas Achrei Mos I also counted 6 times the word Tum’ah in relation to Arayos – it’s unclean and filthy – dirt! Vomit! (Tamei means unclean) and at the end of Parshas Kedoshim we have Hashem Himself saying: םָבּ ץֻקָאָו גכ כ “I’m disgusted with them!” (Arayos is also called: הָתָחְשַׁה “destruction” in Parshas Noach by the Dor HaMabul).
There is good reason why the Torah is constantly describing Arayos in a negative way. Otherwise, it can actually be appealing, Rachmana Litzlan. One of the Gedolei Yisroel said: “They call it “love”, and we call it “Kares”; i.e., you’re being cut off and lost forever if you get involved! One of the Eitzos that Chazal give is by realizing the stench of this Sugya.
I know stories of R’ Avigdor Miller Zatzal how he gave Eitzos to people who had Nisyonos in these areas by realizing the ugliness and animalistic nature of Arayos. It is interesting that Shlomo HaMelech in Mishlei describes people involved in Arayos as having no Sechel. And he is: ַמ ְד ִג שׁי (stresses) the greatness and sweetness of learning Torah, which is the official antidote that saves you from the Yetzer Hara of Arayos.
