The fourth contemporary issue was Sexual Morality. In my opinion, sex is the most natural thing that we engage in. Sex is primal and is the basis of natural urges for pleasure. However, after more discipline was evoked, sex was labeled as being the means of creating life. So sex, therefore is the means by which humans are multiplied and that is the primary purpose of it. Goldman's argument of plain sex is very appealing. When engaging in sex, the goal is the obtain pleasure not neccessarily to produce. Sex fulfills our natural urges to touch and be pleasured by another human. Having to supress the natural urge to want to have sex is not the most natural way of doing things but I suppose that it is the most civilized. If humans did not suppress those urges, then perhaps there would be more molestation of children, rape and beastiality. That is more immoral than subjecting humans to moderation and self control.
Sex is a huge part of our lives, it is in fact the way we got here in the first place. However, everyone's views on sex are different. They are shaped by parents and peers, media and personal feelings. Regardless of the uses of sex or what is the most moral way to utilize the act, it will still happen for whatever reason. I am almost positive that most people in these last couple of generations have put the whole reproduction concept on the back burner and have engaged in sex for pleasure or simply love.
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I feel like you are looking at it in a way where it is the physical aspect of it. I agree that sex is shaped by our peers and family and the media. They determine how we view thing and can actually change our perceptive of it
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