Tosfos Sanhedrin 26b: Why is a חשוד על העריות כשר לעדות? How is this different than אוכל נבילות and the like?
Question: Why is this different than someone who eats Neveilos for pleasure and someone who claims that so-and-so raped him with his consent, who are both Pasul from testifying.
Answer #2 (to first question): Alternatively, the reason that he is Kasher le'Eidus is because he is overcome by his Yeitzer ha'Ra, and is therefore not comparable to eating Neveilah and being raped, where the Yeitzer-ha'Ra does not grip him to the same extent as Ervah.
תימה, מאי שנא מ'אוכל נבלות לתיאבון' ומ'פלוני רבעני לרצוני', דפסולין לעדות?
Question: Why is this different than someone who eats Neveilos for pleasure and someone who claims that so-and-so raped him with his consent, who are both Pasul from testifying.
אי נמי, הכא משום דיצרו תוקפו, ולא דמי לנבלה וגם לרביעה - דליכא יצרו תוקפו כל כך כמו בערוה.
Answer #2 (to first question): Alternatively, the reason that he is Kasher le'Eidus is because he is overcome by his Yeitzer ha'Ra, and is therefore not comparable to eating Neveilah and being raped, where the Yeitzer-ha'Ra does not grip him to the same extent as Ervah.
Mussar Haskel: It is a POWERFUL Yetzer. Men like food. Men like money. Men like sports. Men like cars. Men like LOTSA stuff. But there is nothing as powerful and compelling for man as the יצר המין.
As they say in the vernacular: ראו הוזהרתם!! We have been forewarned. We have to make fences and focus on the soul and hopefully we will be OK.
