No human law can liberate human nature from this bondage, although some may be deluded into thinking it can. It is the Spirit, Paul says, that empowers the free Christian to be a new creation, a new Adam, fulfilling the original design of the Creator. Now the works of the flesh are plain Paul appeals to common awareness of good and evil, which is found across all societies and cultures not that they live according to this knowledge. Paul now begins a list of sinful works. In my view, the categories of sin which Paul lists are all distortions of something real and good, just as the flesh itself is something good corrupted.
Sexuality is a particular arena where the flesh rebels.
Porneia or fornication is the key word and includes all kinds of sexual immorality. I need hardly point out that sexual sin is one of the most disastrous snares of Satan in the world today. One reason is because sexuality can so often imitate spirituality. Venus can dress up as a goddess and demand worship. Idolatry was the primary sin of the Old Testament people of God and sorcery was a great temptation in the Greco-Roman world of magic and mystery religions.