Complex and diverse feelings come onto the viewer when he or she stands in front of Von Stuck’s painting. The picture is called ‘Sin’ and not ‘Temptation’, yet the first emotion of the viewer could be the fascination of the woman on the passing-by spectator. The woman could be a prostitute waiting in a dark alley of Munich for a willing client. She tempts the viewer to follow her by opening her gown and showing in the light of a lantern the whiteness of her flesh. In scant light contrasts of brightness are enhanced, as von Stuck showed in his picture. The woman’s flesh so exposed in the light might tempt a man seeking relieve of sexual desires and women in quest of sensations. Prostitution must remain anonymous in order to be easier consumed without remorse, so the woman’s face stays in the darkness of the night. Prostitution then can remain an act in which there is no involvement in the persons that will indulge in the desire and the sexual act. The viewer is a voyeur first, but the woman can retain her personality outside the exposure and outside the sexual act.