Is sex important?

[aurevesque]

I think sex has the capacity to complicate things. So, only do it if you're mature enough for whatever emotional distress it may cause you. And naturally, be smart about protection.

 

[Raine]

Cheers to that~

I know I've found my soul mate and I've never been happier

Heck, I haven't taken my anti-depressant meds in over a year and I feel fantastic

That's great to hear! c: There's nothing happier than having someone who truly wants to support you, no matter what, and will honestly be your rock whenever times get rough.

I've gone through rough times myself, like depression accompanied with suicidal thoughts and anorexia during high school and both times, I felt like I couldn't rely on anyone but myself. Especially with the depression, friends and family were unbeknownst to the fact that I attended counselling sessions with a psychologist to discuss my suicidal thoughts. But now I couldn't be happier with how life has been coming together, in both a social aspect and career-wise.

As someone who has been in a steady relationship for two years I think sex is one of the least important aspects of it. The relationship doesn't work because of sex - it works because we're supportive of one another, we're company for one another and we know what little things to do to make one another smile.

Minimal sex in a relationship is fine by me. Not having sex but having an intimate relationship is a legitimate choice and it doesn't make a couple and less devoted to one another.

Each couple is different, but I find that partners should have similar libidos or there might be an issue.

I think sex has the capacity to complicate things. So, only do it if you're mature enough for whatever emotional distress it may cause you. And naturally, be smart about protection.

Would you mind specifying what these complications might be?

As far as I'm concerned, the only major problem that could stem to little ones would be communication. Communication is important in and out of sexual context, and letting your partner know what you enjoy and what you don't not only helps you, but also your partner.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

Sex is important as a means to keep your family bloodline from going extinct. Bloodlines are like sub-species of the same animal such as tigers, they have their own unique traits that different themselves from the other sub-species and must be preserved at all costs, for they could be bring very valuable data in the future. You may never know if you're carrying the legacy of someone famous, and you want to keep reproducing to keep that legacy alive.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Sex is important as a means to keep your family bloodline from going extinct. Bloodlines are like sub-species of the same animal such as tigers, they have their own unique traits that different themselves from the other sub-species and must be preserved at all costs, for they could be bring very valuable data in the future. You may never know if you're carrying the legacy of someone famous, and you want to keep reproducing to keep that legacy alive.

This is a really unorthodox way of looking at it, and I like it. I wish more people had this bit of outlook - at least in our culture everyone just dates whoever willy nilly, there's no basing who you are in your blood anymore and it seems like we're missing out.

 

[Her]

Sex is important as a means to keep your family bloodline from going extinct. Bloodlines are like sub-species of the same animal such as tigers, they have their own unique traits that different themselves from the other sub-species and must be preserved at all costs, for they could be bring very valuable data in the future. You may never know if you're carrying the legacy of someone famous, and you want to keep reproducing to keep that legacy alive.

I think this is an interesting way of looking at things, but humans aren't diverse enough in their genetics to hold this statement up. While there's the obvious genetic differences such as skin colour and prominent facial features and what not, humankind isn't that varied a species if we're being compared to animals. Homo sapiens don't have any existing sub-species and the data left from the breeding with neanderthals is almost negligible at this point. The DNA carried through our bloodlines just doesn't really compare to the various sub-species of, say, tigers.
Nonetheless, it's interesting.

 

[skyburial]

As someone who is polyamorous, I'd have to say it truly depends on the person. Intimacy is more important that sex outright, and while intimacy can manifest in sexual gratification, it can also be divorced from it. Folks receive intimacy from completely platonic relationships, so sex is not very important for those individuals.

I think throughout adulthood we misconstrue what sex can accomplish. It's a fruitless pursuit to try to find validation through it and yet I watch partners and other people attempt to do so pretty often. Nonetheless, anyone who's been in a relationship with mismatched libidos can attest to the gestalt of unsavory emotions that results from that persistent dialogue.

tl;dr it depends

 

[Akiba]

It's actually pretty important. It's a biological gift that's been given to us, so I believe that it is something we should all get to enjoy once in our lifetimes.

As someone who has been a native to the cultures of both the United States and Japan, perhaps two of the most advanced and culturally sexual nations in the world, I can unequivocally say that it's become a huge part of our modern lives. Every year, the age at which young children start being introduced to the sexual elements of our culture becomes younger and younger. Little girls go to school wearing pantyhose, laced undergarments, and miniskirts (I have no idea what the guys are doing tbh). Massive portions of our media, like magazines, television commercials, and billboards, are dedicated towards appealing to the human psychology with a sexually attractive body of the viewer's opposite gender (although the distinction may not be as clear as of recent). Millions of teens are striving for the perfect body. To accommodate, stores across the nation sell perfumes, deodorants, cosmetics, fashionable clothes, and the like. In various locations across the states, it is completely legal and socially acceptable to be nude. While the same laws that allow it also specify that it can only be done without sexual motivation, I would say eight out of ten times that a nudist on the street would have had some sort of sexual thought going through one's mind when making the decision to go outdoors without putting on clothes. As for movies and other video content, there is nothing short of an entire industry based on and motivated by sex alone. Meanwhile in Japan, sex is just as well an established and worshipped social construct, perhaps tenfold severe. It's probably one of the top three things on the minds of half of the population at any given time. Comiket, one of the largest national events, is a biannual comic convention with a majority of sales going to sexually explicit (R-18 as we call it) content. Being groped by a salaryman on a train is a rite of passage for teenage girls passing into adulthood (I was groped just a few weeks ago >.>). Some statistics say that a majority of people in Japan have had sexual intercourse before the age of 18. Just last year, Japan finally banned child pornography after decades of international pressure (and yet it's still allowed in original creations such as anime and manga).

To top it all off, 4chan and 2ch, internet image discussion boards from the United States and Japan, respectively, are quite possibly the most toxic places on the internet, where all different kinds of people gather to unleash their inner selves. As a regular denizen of both boards, I can safely say that said "inner selves" are extremely sex-addicted (If you don't believe me then just take a look at /b/).

As something that is so finely ingrained into our cultures, I'd regard it hogwash to write it off as something insignificant.

 

[Sniper]

Important as a couple's choice for future family making purposes. If no to child, doesn't mean no to sex. Sometimes it's only because of lust in a relationship and sometimes it's too early, and it's a hindrance for early couples and I say it's not that important. Since relationships were suppose to love and support each other and can stay strong forever without sex. Only have sex when you know you can handle it once something gets wrong.

But also in my opinion that sex is something that makes relationship stronger. Because it somehow makes you more devoted to your partner. Also a start of a problem. If something is too good, it will turn bad afterwards. But as said, only do when you know what you're actually doing people.

Sex are only for adults.