If Sex Is Only For Procreation, Why Did "God" Make It Feel So Damn Good?

[DistressedAmerican]

What the hell?

I think that is some sort of entrapment! It is like "He" is trying to get us burnt for eternity.

If it turns out I am wrong and there is a God after all, I want a freaking lawyer.

This is BS!

:evilgrin:

[kiraboo]

1. Does it feel good?

I can't remember.

[Deja Q]

2. I wouldn't know...

So I can't remember. :D

[DistressedAmerican]

4. You should really go out and remind yourself.

It is good for the mental health.

Under stress like living in Bush's America, I believe it is recommended you do it twice as often.

[kiraboo]

11. 2 x 0 = 0

But I get your meaning.

[Deja Q]

15. Some of us have tried. Can't get anybody either.

And some can't fathom the self-esteem issues that follow.

[kiraboo]

19. Ain't it the truth?

Married for 16 years and it didn't matter if anybody wanted me. Suddenly, my whole self-worth is centered around whether or not I'm desirable. Recent events suggest that I'm a freakin' wart on porcine ass.

You, on the other hand, are delightful to behold. He'll show up; it's just a matter of waiting it out...

[Deja Q]

21. Thank you kindly.

He or possibly she will show up. It's a matter of time. And love is about the other person; therefore it makes no difference. Love is the emotional aspect. Not the corporeal, which is lust.

[kiraboo]

22. I find the lust impossible to sustain without the love.

Although love doesn't necessarily support lust in the same way.

[Deja Q]

33. Damn, you're good!

:hi:

:)

[valerief]

5. Just ask sinmeister Rush. n/t

[kiraboo]

9. Oh barf.

The mere thought of the man is enough to compel me to lifelong celibacy.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. RUSH AS BIRTH CONTROL! LOL!

[ladjf]

3. Most likely , sex is primarily for procreate. But, that doesn't

mean that it can't serve other purposes. It's a very versatile activity.

[Sanity Claws]

13. Primarily? that's arguably not true.

Women who can get pregnant are not the only women who engage in sex. Pregnant women can still engage in sex and women past child-bearing are still receptive to sex. I think this means that sex serves a different purpose, such as a means of deepening the bonds between a couple.

[ladjf]

23. All of your observations about what sex can do are true. My

statement that "sex is primarily for procreation" was a generalization based on the obvious biological need to perpetuate the species. I think that the word "primarily" leaves enough room for the other reasons for having sex.

[deaniac21]

24. See Darwin's Theory of Evolution.......

[Xithras]

28. Biologically, procreation is the only reason for sex.

Of course, biologically EVERYTHING we do is for procreation. But sex specifically is enjoyable for procreative purposes. People who enjoy sex have more of it. People who have more sex have more babies. When species have more babies, we call them "viable species". When they don't have many babies, we call them "extinct".

Humans, like every other living creature on the planet, ultimately exist to screw, have babies, and die. We have lots of evolutionary traits to encourage us to screw more, and biological adaptations that permit us to screw until our bodies are too old to function properly anymore. The one and only purpose for all fo this screwing is to make as many babies as possible. Everything else, all of "modern society", is window dressing built around that basic biological fact.

[ladjf]

31. The real purpose of life might be to facilitate a quicker balance

of energy potentials, an acceleration of entropy (the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity ) and we are doing a great job of it.

[chelsea0011]

6. It would ruin the purpose of religion being guilt, shame, and denial.

[ladjf]

32. At some point in history, religion will be universally recognized as an

aberration rather than a realistic state of mind. The human race will be on safer ground then. But, until then, we've got to be very careful. We could all die from the result of religious behavior, as did the people of Easter Island.

[Lars39]

7. The human body is a temple.

Sex keeps it healthy. Deal. :evilgrin:

[Atman]

10. I try to worship daily.

:evilgrin:

[Atman]

8. Actually, you're absolutely correct...think about it for a minute...

God (or Gaia) wanted man to procreate. It has to happen in order for any species to survive. But most creatures, we humans supposed, don't have consciences and self-awareness, so no reasonable person could expect a dog, for example, to say "Whoa, look at that fly bitch across the street! I'd love to do her, but I really can't deal with more kids right now." No way. Do you think those two dogs humping on your front lawn are doing it because God told them only to do it for babies? Anyone would have to be nuts to assume that. No, the ONLY reason those dogs are doing it is because it feels good. That literally is the ONLY reason, unless you want to subscribe to the theory that they're intelligent beings with the ability to reason.

If it felt like a meat grinder eating your privates when you "did it," you'd never, ever have sex. Think about it. How do the Goddies defend masturbation? It feels good, we can't help it. It's right there. It is ALL about the good feeling, because, as I stated, if sex hurt no one would do it.

[gasperc]

14. so that we'll want to do it ALOT

and make it the most important thing we think about( well alot of anyway)simple as that, and there's nothing wrong with people who aren't wired the same

[LanternWaste]

16. like a large pepperoni pizza...

Odd. I feel precisely the same way about eating a large pepperoni pizza for dinner after skipping breakfast and lunch.... If eating is simply to satisfy our cravings for hunger, why did He make it feel so damn good?

[Atman]

34. Sex is just like a pizza.

When it's good, it's GREAT. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.

[noonwitch]

17. I had this discussion with my 93 year old "freeper" type grandpa

We were watching FOX News, which he watches pretty much all day and night. They mentioned gay marriage, to which I said "Those gay people have been getting out of paying the marriage tax for too long now". He said "Sex should only be for procreation". Knowing my grandparents to have been horndogs well into their 80s, I asked him "Does that mean you and grandma stopped having sex after she went through menopause?". He had no answer. I said "People do it because it's fun. What needs to be stressed is responsibility about sex, not forbidding it in all ways except one".

[leftofthedial]

18. "god" is a sadistic, psychotic bastard

if what is written is true

[MissB]

20. Locking

No sex threads in GD.

IBTL?

[jokerman93]

25. self deleted - lame joke

[Ron Green]

26. "Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!"

...or something like that, as I recall.

[AllNamesHaveBeenUsed]

27. To increase the desire and ensure...

the continuance of our species.

29. We have a higher self and a lower animal self

and God wants us to realize our higher selves. At least that is one explanation.

[Odin2005]

30. My take on this...

certain social conservatives say we are programed to have babies, this isn't true. We are programed to have sex, and sex leads to babies.

Also, the "sex is for procreation is basically derived from the philosphical writings of the 13th century theologian St. Thomas Aquinas.Aquinas stated that the way the world works is part of God's plan, and therefore and anything that fulfills those "natural ends" is good and anything that gets in the way is bad. Contraception is bad, according to Aquinas because it gets in the way of pegnancy, which is the "natural end" of sex. This logic was shown to be nonsense by various enlightenment scholars (especially David Hume), and became known as the Naturalistic Fallacy. Hume stated that the way things are has nothing to do with what OUGHT to be.

[cynatnite]

35. Because god knows a lot of people don't go to church...

sex works as a replacement

[lindisfarne]

36. Frequent sex has all kinds of health benefits. Birth control has changed

the "sex = procreation" equation and shown that a lot of humans aren't "driven" to pro-create - when given a choice (as BC gives them), a lot of people choose to not pro-create.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-barash10may10,1,1760560.story

Sex is essential, kids aren't
Why are 30% of German women choosing to go childless? Free will, baby.
By David P. Barash
DAVID P. BARASH is a professor of psychology at the University of Washington.

May 10, 2006

THE GERMAN PUBLIC was recently shocked to learn that 30% of "their" women are childless — the highest proportion of any country in the world. And this is not a result of infertility; it's intentional childlessness.

Demographers are intrigued. German nationalists, aghast. Religious fundamentalists, distressed at the indication that large numbers of women are using birth control.

And evolutionary biologists (including me) are asked, "How can this be?" If reproduction is perhaps the fundamental imperative of natural selection, of our genetic heritage, isn't it curious — indeed, counterintuitive — that people choose, and in such large numbers, to refrain from participating in life's most pressing event?

The answer is that intentional childlessness is indeed curious — but in no way surprising. It is also illuminating, because it sheds light on what is perhaps the most notable hallmark of the human species: the ability to say no — not just to a bad idea, an illegal order or a wayward pet but to our own genes.

When it comes to human behavior, there are actually very few genetic dictates. Our hearts insist on beating, our lungs breathing, our kidneys filtering and so forth, but these internal-organ functions are hardly "behavior" in a meaningful sense. As for more complex activities, evolution whispers within us. It does not shout orders.
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