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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 26]
śālmalī. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement forbids illicit sex. From the description of these verses, we can understand what an extremely sinful act illicit sex is. Sometimes people disbelieve these descriptions of hell, but whether one believes or not, everything must be carried out by the laws of nature, which no one can avoid.
TEXT 22
ये त्विह वै राजन्या राजपुरुषा वा अपाखण्डा धर्मसेतून् 
  भिन्दन्ति ते सम्परेत्य वैतरण्यां निपतन्ति भिन्नमर्यादास्तस्यां 
  निरयपरिखाभूतायां नद्यां यादोगर्णैरितस्ततो भक्ष्यमाणा आत्मना न 
  वियुज्यमानाश्चासुभिरुद्धमानाः स्वाघेन कर्मपाकमनुसरन्तो 
  विष्मूत्रपूयशोणितकेशनखास्थिमेदोमांसवसावाहिन्यामुपतप्यन्ते ॥ २२ ॥
ye tv iha vai rājanyā rāja-puruṣā vā apākhaṇḍā dharma-setūn 
  bhindanti te samparetya vaitaraṇyāṁ nipatanti bhinna-maryādās 
  tasyāṁ niraya-parikhā-bhūtāyāṁ nadyāṁ yādo-gaṇair itas tato 
  bhakṣyamāṇā ātmanā na viyujyamāṇāś cāsubhir uhyamāṇāḥ svāghena 
  karma-pākam anusmaranto viṇ-mūtra-pūya-śoṇita-keśa-nakhāsthi- 
  medo-māṁsa-vasā-vāhinyām upatapyante.
ye—persons who: tu—but; iha—in this life; vai—indeed; rā- 
  janyāḥ—members of the royal family, or kṣatriyas; rāja-puruṣāḥ— 
  government servants; vā—or; apākhaṇḍāḥ—although born in responsi- 
  ble families; dharma-setūn—the bounds of prescribed religious princi- 
  ples; bhindanti—transgress; te—they; samparetya—after dying; 
  vaitaraṇyām—named Vaitaraṇī; nipatanti—fall down; bhinna- 
  maryādāḥ—who have broken the regulative principles; tasyām—in 
  that; niraya-parikhā-bhūtāyām—the moat surrounding hell; 
  nadyām—in the river; yādaḥ-gaṇaiḥ—by ferocious aquatic animals; 
  itaḥ tataḥ—here and there; bhakṣyamāṇāḥ—being eaten; ātmanā— 
  with the body; na—not; viyujyamāṇāḥ—being separated; ca—and; 
  asubhiḥ—the life airs; uhyamāṇāḥ—being carried; sva-aghena—by his 
  own sinful activities; karma-pākam—the result of his impious ac- 
  tivities; anusmarantaḥ—remembering; viṭ—of stool; mūtra—urine;