The ‘Wisdom Literature’ of the Bible provides crucial instruction on the important issue of desire. Working from Proverbs 5-7 and Song of Songs 1, with great pastoral sensitivity and with his customary practical application, David Gibson shows how the Bible’s ‘erotic’ literature differs so markedly from the world’s pornography, and how it highlights the way in which desire can become crippling if handled wrongly but life-enriching when handled rightly.