What is this good education? Never heard of it.
No, sex obviously serves humans in creating a strong bond between a man and a woman. In fact I'm quite certain it does the same for many animals.
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Please Explain: Why is the Dogma that Sex Must be for Procreation an Intelligent View of Sex?
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No, sex obviously serves humans in creating a strong bond between a man and a woman. In fact I'm quite certain it does the same for many animals.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Sex has many purposes. It relieves tension, lowers blood pressure, burns a few calories, brings folks closer together, and reminds us we are grunting sweaty mammals no matter how many ties we put on and utensils we use to eat...
...just realized why some religious folks may want to restrict its usage!
...just realized why some religious folks may want to restrict its usage!
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Isn't everything about procreation, then? We eat to sustain our bodies so that we may live long enough to reproduce them. We avoid pain for the same reason. We love so that we may draw people together to better survive as a community.
Our biological wants and needs are all there to help us survive and pass on our genetics.
But that is only one paradigm. We are also individuals who feel pain and pleasure and create meaningful associations so that our lives may be experienced to the fullest. I eat when I am not hungry sometimes because food is comforting and delicious. I have sex without the goal of pregnancy in order to express love and closeness as well as experience the intense pleasure that comes with it. I masturbate to relieve tension or help me sleep as well as just because it feels good.
dianaiad
Well-Known Member
Well, I'm back from a week of radiation treatments, to see this little gem....
I have found that those who, first, indulge in ad hominems about a post, rather than comment upon the contents, then second, continue the insult by saying that s/he is going to take his/her toys and leave the playground, do so because they lost the argument.
And know it.
dianaiad
Well-Known Member
And you are quite right. Sex does all those things. Now...why is it important that those things get addressed/taken care of?
According to evolutionists, it's because all those things (especially bringing folks closer together) ensure that those folks stick around to raise the babies.
dianaiad
Well-Known Member
According to evolutionists, pretty much yes. Do you have a problem with this?
(shrug)
Look, I don't care why you have sex. I'm simply saying that all the reasons for having sex boil down to...keeping folks together and willing to have more sex so that the kids are safer and healther....and so that they actually show up.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
Right, and I am saying everything boils down to the continuation of the species. But as an individual, I simply live and eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am tired, release when I am horny. This is despite whether I reproduce or not.
dianaiad
Well-Known Member
OK.
but you are doing it in spite of its purpuse. makeing bets with the universe that THIS time won't cause harm/difficulties.
when one as sex in the full realization of what its for, accepting the possibilities and willing to embrace those possibilities, one will enjoy it more, and allow that enjoyment free of worry about what it's for..