How important do you consider sex?

[StarCecil]

Sex is only important in the context of a committed, long-term romantic relationship. Or at least that's how I see it.

 

[Pyroguekenesis]

Isn't the virginity stuff for the girls usually very important...besides the *itches and *hores...cluts I mean...

 

[DiMono]

Depends whether I'm getting any. What's that line from Funny People? "Not cheating is easy when nobody wants to fuck you"?

Right now, it's not that important. I just don't have any interest in porn at the moment and haven't for several weeks, and I'm getting it often enough from the girlfriend to keep both of us happy. It's fun, but it's not important enough that it's affecting my life.

I'm not quite sure where I was intending to take this post, but it's 2 in the morning now so I'm going to go to bed and probably dream of a midget with a horse or something... it's been an odd day.

 

[joshuaayt]

Sex is that thing that terrifies me with its influence. Kinda like Facebook and Religion.
I think I'll stay away from it, thank you. Personally, I'd feel closer to someone I had a meaningful conversation with, anyway.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Not nearly as important as I consider love.
Also I hate how sex is portrayed in popular culture.

 

[Shapsters]

Considering I've never had sex it seems pretty important... however I'm sure once I've had it a few times the allure will wear out and it will become more of a intimate thing than a 'lets have sex nao!' kind of thing.

 

[Daeggreth]

Who said anything about higher reasons ? Quite the opposite, actually.
Selfish reasons, hedonistic reasons, maybe emotional blackmail ammo or as the reward in a carrot-and-stick approach, to kill boredom, and so on and so forth.
NONE of which are purely "for the perpetuation of the species".

What exactly was so disjointed about my argument anyway ?
If sex would ONLY serve for reproduction and absolutely nothing else, then explain contraceptives and non-heterosexual sex, both of which IMPEDE reproduction, so only somebody that wanted to have sex WITHOUT reproducing would ever even think about any of those things, therefore sex MUST serve some other purpose except the perpetuation of the species.
Unless you go ahead and claim EVERYTHING we do is ultimately for the perpetuation of the species, if you split the hair enough times and omit whatever's not convenient for your argument, then yeah, you might just about manage to almost be right.

If it's alright I'd like to weigh in on the conversation.

From the evolutionary standpoint any species of creature that does not have a significant drive to reproduce is unlikely to survive for any significant amount of time. We humans have managed to exist for a long enough time that we no longer require the ferocious mammalian sex drive to maintain existence (think rabbits, mice, etc.) So while sex originated as a means for the continuation of the species, it has managed to take on new meanings as the drive remains but is no longer as necessary for survival.

At least that's how I see it. even though I know others' have different perspectives. [I'm looking at you creationists ; ) ]

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Personally I don't care for it if I don't truly like anyone. I think I need to feel a HUGE proper connection with someone to get that close. Sex for the purposes of having sex doesn't appeal much to me. Sex for emotional connection is what I'm looking for.

Best kind of sex that exists.

That said, as a pure learning experience, a couple of more casual encounters with someone you think is nice would be good stepping stones for learning how to act and treat your partner would help.

I'm loath to call such encounters practice because its still an incredibly intimate connection with another human being.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Well I'm a man so my day usually goes

"1 2 3 4 5 6 SEX! 1 2 3 4 5 6 SEX!"

 

[Emily Millard]

I would say sex is how i communicate to my partner just how much i care for him, as well as telling him that i love him. So sex is important, sex appeal not so much and i still think about sex all day Mainly because i have sex everyday.. =^.^=

 

[Jekken6]

I'm gonna go with "incredibly important when you're not getting any"

 

[Harlemura]

In terms of general survival of the human race? Yeah, it's pretty darned important. Because otherwise we'd, y'know, die out.
But personally? I kinda have no choice to find it unimportant. It's only just legal for me to have it age-wise, but more importantly I need to be able to get someone to do it with.

Spoiler: Regarding that second one...

Then again, the age thing didn't stop half the people at my secondary school.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Well then, by your reasoning I was hit by lightning WHILE getting eaten by a shark WHILE in the desert.

You're going to have to explain the situation in more than hyperbolic metaphors before I can accept that. If you paired hormonal birth control pills with condoms, without forgetting to take pills or jabbing holes in the condoms, then pregnancy shouldn't... happen. The chance of sperm getting past a condom at the same time that the pill will, for some unlikely reason, not work, is absurdly negligible. The only fathomable explanation is gross human error.

 

[Christopher Roberts]

Well then, by your reasoning I was hit by lightning WHILE getting eaten by a shark WHILE in the desert.

You're going to have to explain the situation in more than hyperbolic metaphors before I can accept that. If you paired hormonal birth control pills with condoms, without forgetting to take pills or jabbing holes in the condoms, then pregnancy shouldn't... happen. The chance of sperm getting past a condom at the same time that the pill will, for some unlikely reason, not work, is absurdly negligible. The only fathomable explanation is gross human error.

Birth control + Condom = Twins
I don't know how. I actually witnessed the consuming of the birth control. The condom did not break. Let's face it, I have Superman sperm.

 

[Envisionation]

I've always felt that good sex was integral to a healthy relationship. There's a billion reasons why and my brain hurts too much to list them out, but it's pretty high on the priority list.

 

[smithy_2045]

Society places more importance on sex than it should.