Jesus has not called the desire and the act exactly the same; he has distinguished between physical adultery and "heart adultery" and called both sins. Jesus' Jewish contemporaries would likely have agreed with his teaching here, for lust was frequently regarded as "visual fornication or adultery." However, the blame in that culture was often placed on women for being alluring, rather than on men for being lustful. In any event, the teaching does not regard thinking of an action and actually performing it as precise equivalents, but recognizes the underlying sinful intent.