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@vivacious

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Posted: 13 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: Freethinker112
So many sex topics! I am new here, so I will take the word of old members that it is a trend. 😆

No, it is not a primary need, you won't die without sex. But it is recommended for mental health. It can build up as frustration. At least men will get a release automatically in sleep if they don't have sex or masturbate for long times.

This is borderline nonsense.

Sex is not a need, its just a desire. Desires can be acted on, suppressed, subsituted or replaced. Any suppressed desire can manifest as some form of anxiety or other mental disorder. There's nothing special about sex, same can be said about any form of desire.

Your statement makes it look like if there's no sex then a person cannot be mentally healthy - incorrect.

nocturnal emissions, are not due to long-term abstinence. They are due to orgasms that occur during dreams and dreams are usually derived from onbservaions/thoughts in our conscious mind. It is for the same reason that this is more common during adolescence (sexual curiousity) than in elderly. Thus, its not a rule that if a person is abstinent then he "will always" have emissions.

LOL, the way you put it is like there's some sort of container that spills its content after its full - this does not happen - not as per human physiology.

However I am still willing to consider you as an exception - a truly strange case of incontinent testes ! 😆

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BirdieNumNum

@CuckooCutter7

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Posted: 13 years ago

#12

sex might not be a primary need. But it sure feels like a primary objective😆

also, a primary need isn't all that it's cracked up to be. You can have only so much food, your primary need for it doesn't go beyond that. But with sex, you just cant have enough.😆

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Freethinker112

@Freethinker112

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Posted: 13 years ago

#13

Originally posted by: Beyond_the_Veil

Well having a release or even masturbation is the physical part, I think as hard as that can be one can still live without that. But sex is also very much important for mental health. Life long celibacy, repression etc never result into anything good. This is why I am of the opinion that the sexually repressive culture causes more damage to one than even sexually promiscuous one does.

Yeah, exactly, that's why I said it is good for mental health. Repressing things are never good and create problems later on.

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Freethinker112

@Freethinker112

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Posted: 13 years ago

#14

Originally posted by: vivacious

This is borderline nonsense.

Really? I don't think so, but let's see.

Originally posted by: vivacious

Sex is not a need, its just a desire. Desires can be acted on, suppressed, subsituted or replaced. Any suppressed desire can manifest as some form of anxiety or other mental disorder. There's nothing special about sex, same can be said about any form of desire.

I never said it's a need. I mentioned that in my post too. And yes, repression of any desire is not good for mind.

Originally posted by: vivacious

Your statement makes it look like if there's no sex then a person cannot be mentally healthy - incorrect.

I said it is recommended. I did not say it was compulsory. I was talking about the most probable case, people not having sex but having a desire too. I am well aware that sex drive varies, but it's not possible to list each and every case here. There will always be exceptions.

Originally posted by: vivacious

nocturnal emissions, are not due to long-term abstinence. They are due to orgasms that occur during dreams and dreams are usually derived from onbservaions/thoughts in our conscious mind. It is for the same reason that this is more common during adolescence (sexual curiousity) than in elderly. Thus, its not a rule that if a person is abstinent then he "will always" have emissions.

LOL, the way you put it is like there's some sort of container that spills its content after its full - this does not happen - not as per human physiology.

And where did I say it was? Correlation does not equal causation. I have had to repeat this so often that I think I should include it in my signature. I never said abstinence was a cause of nocturnal emission. I skipped elaboration, but I will lay it all here for you. Long term abstinence in men will make you think much of sex. You will get a boner seeing anything remotely sexual suggesting. Thinking so much of sex increases the chance of nocturnal emission. Happy now? And yes, as a man ages, testosterone levels drop which decreases sex drive, thus it is more common amongst teens. And before you jump on the "not always" train, I am talking a generic case here. Human behaviors generally form a bell curve so there will be extremes on both sides.

So, yeah, misunderstanding the post completely and calling it nonsense. Good debate. 😒

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tulipbaby53

@tulipbaby53

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Posted: 13 years ago

#15

Well, let's look at the animal world as whole (excluding human beings for the moment). For the animal kingdom, sex is a need. Producing viable and fertile is the most important thing for any animal species. It allows the species to continue on into the future. Females (in most species of animals) choose a mate (or choose mates) that have (what they feel to be) the best survival qualities. As a male animal species, one of their main goals is to make sure they are engaging in intercourse in order for their genes (they don't know it's called genes) to be in the next generation.

Now, I'm going to answer your question and bring in human beings. We as human beings are also animals, and it is in our biology to want to have sex. Even in human beings there is selection process, but it is done differently than in animals. Although, I feel both males and females select, unlike with other species of animals when the female only selects. We as human beings have the ability to control our sexual needs and desires. We also have to choice to engage in sex and not have children associated with it.

Is sex a need for humans? In theory yes, but when thought about scientifically, no. One would not die without sex, but they may feel as though something was missing. Eventually if all of do not have sex or reproduce children from sex, the human species will become extinct. In that sense, yes, we do need sex, for the survival of our species. In order for human being to live though, we do not need sex. We actually are the only species of animal that has sex frivolously and for fun.

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