“So take courage my child and rise from your fault. Stand up. Get angry with the tempter knowing that he is one that contrived all this trickery. Don’t let him get away with it; fight him. When he brings the face to your memory take a cane and strike your thighs hard so that the carnal desire withers away. You will weep from the pain but your nous will be cleansed from that memory. Thus the filthy images disappear and the deception of the fantasy leaves. My child, you should fear this temptation greatly because it defiles the soul. This unclean demon needs beating without mercy.”
Elder Joseph
~Monastic Wisdom