Sex: should we all do it?

Today, culture is run by sex. Go into any shop, and I guarantee you will find something which can be connected to sexual promiscuity in some way. In fact, every culture has pretty much been dominated by it, even the Victorians who tried to brush it under the carpet. It just won't go away.

But is that a bad thing? As Darwin so helpfully emphasized, procreation is our natural instinct, it what drives our animal side, and fulfillment of this succeeds in our primal satisfaction. As Dr. Alvin Plantinga commented once 'we all do one of the four F's in all our actions of some kind: feeding, fighting, fleeing and reproducing.' And from what little my friends have said, they seem to enjoy it quite a lot. So many things point towards us supporting sexual behavior.

However, it does come with a cost. Leaving my religious views to onside and trying to be objective in Schopenhauer's sense, I cannot but help feel that constant romping could damage the absoluteness of love. What I mean by that is that love is a special thing, which transcends physicality, with sex being a symbol for two becoming one. However, if you have sex all the time, it loses its symbolic meaning, because the people you do it with don't want to be united with you in the same sense as love. So I think that needs to be taken into consideration if you want to have a rich life.

Also, babies. As I mentioned earlier, sex is the method for creating such demons, and as such the cost inevetably is that you may create one. No doubt that this could be a strain on your life if you don't want one, especially if you are single. So that could be a downside too.

At the end of the day, I guess it all depends on what you consider the best way to enhance your chances of having a meaningful life, outside of the humanities (A.C. Grayling reference for all of you KEFW kids). If you prefer a hedonistic view of the world where you are king/queen and your own ruler, or Nietzsche's superman, then go for it, create your own values, and gain happiness through fulfilling your base desires. However, if you believe that there is more to life than physical pleasures, that to be human is to apply a sense of meaning to things and that sex is a symbol of 'spiritual' union in some way, I would suggest being a bit reticent about it all.