SEX
The drive for sex is one of the strongest of the human instincts, often over-riding even the instinct for survival. Sexual reproduction is an ancient evolutionary tool. Its significance in the development of the human, genetically and socially, is profound. It is hard to find a cultural rule which does not refer in some way to sex. Contrary to modern (PC) ideology, the unit of human culture is not the individual. It is, instead, the male-female bonded pair and their off-spring. This has been true at least 4 million years, since the first hominid ventured onto the plains.
Is sex being properly (intellectually, morally, ethically) applied in modern human culture? And what about the future? Are there fundamental social and genetic changes that need to be made? These questions are discussed from an ethical and moral viewpoint, where the survival of the species is the paramount consideration.
Summary
The drive for sex is one of the most ancient of instincts, dating back at least 680 million years. Most modern mobile life-forms are driven by this same instinct. It is also one of the strongest of all instincts in all of the life-forms that contain it, at times even surpassing in strength the drive for survival. All life-forms which are sexual have strong sexual behavior patterns. In all of the mobile organisms, the human being the exception, sexual behavior is controlled by instincts tailored to the particular organism and are compatible with the overall behavior of the organism. Both the sexual drive and the sexual behavior controls are instinctive in all of these animals.
The human developed from an ancient primate about four million years ago. That primate was well developed even at that time. Its sexual drive and behavior controlling instincts were strong and uniform. The other modern primates all have these characteristics, with sexual behavior systems which fit them and their life style. Only the human developed a different behavior system, one which included intellectual control over the instincts.
As the hominid developed to become the modern human, it developed intellect in parallel with other physical and neural differences. The advantages were huge. Blind reaction to an environmental condition was replaced with decisions based on experience and planning. Along with this development, and as a result of it, human behavior became more and more intellectual and complex.
The drive for sex in the human is vastly different from that of other sexual organisms. The ancient sexual drive and sexual controls do not fit modern culture. Only through the application of the intellect, utilizing experience, education and training, as a control over the raw instincts, may proper cultural behavior be obtained.
The human sex drive is without conscience. It does not care about long range effects. It seeks only immediate gratification. If conscience exists, it exists in the intellect of the human. To be human is to allow the intellect to select the time, place, partner and procedure. To be promiscuous is to be sub-human.
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Modern Human Sexual Practice
About one-third (mostly Christians) of modern society is currently attempting to maintain an attitude of sexual discipline and the sanctity of the bonded and committed pair as the basic elements of culture. The balance (a curious mixture of the lowest class and the academic elite) preach a gospel of sin and let sin. The current social movement is toward the latter while the lure of sexual freedom is steadily eating away the former.
All human social instincts, from mother love to tribal cooperation, are diverging and degenerating at a rapid rate. Random mutations spare no instinct and nature is no longer allowed to cleanse the gene pool. Many of man's instincts became obsolete and counter-productive when his social environment changed. Others have since become damaging to society as the result of degeneration. There is little that we can do at the present time to correct the source of these problems, but we can identify them and start working toward minimizing their effect.
The unrestrained (modern) human, to put it mildly, is sexually bizarre. The physical sex that nature developed in all mammals, heterosexual penis-vagina sex, is lost in the wilderness. Modern heterosexual couples regularly engage in penis-oral and oral-vaginal sex, often at the same time. Then there is penis-anal, and even oral-anal sex. Masturbation is common. A mixture of masturbation and one of the other forms of sex is also common. Most men claim to prefer penis-oral sex, a practice that has nothing to do at all with procreation. Although some of the other animals sniff around and play various sexual arousal games, none use any of the other practices as a substitute for penis-vagina (normal) sex. Rare would be the stallion that mounted the wrong end of the mare.
It doesn't end there. About 10% of the human population is homosexual and bisexual. Since all of these practices are socially acceptable (one's bedroom is private) and schools regularly teach our small children that it's all a matter of personal choice, there is a lot of experimentation by our young.
Then there are the child molesters, rapists, and murder-rapists. A large portion of homosexual men prefer very young boys. Sexual slavery of stolen young children is the cause of the disappearance of many. Worse yet is the serial killer who obtains sexual pleasure from murder.
Placing a bunch of same-sex animals of the same species in the same pen will bring a variety of responses. If they are male and territorial, they will usually fight. If not, such as most grazing animals, they will mill around but get along. Once in a while, a male will raise up on another in mock sexual activity, but it's quickly terminated. They will not engage in sexual intercourse. Pen up a bunch of same-sex humans and the sexual activity will hardly slow. A South African male prison recently started issuing free condoms to all of its inmates in an attempt to slow down the spread of HIV.
Then from a social standpoint, three or more in a bed is the latest teen-age rage, sexual promiscuity of married couples with children is on the rise and pornography is now acceptable in cinema, and TV and widely available on the internet.
In the animal kingdom (some primates excepted), sex for any other reason than procreation is rare. Sex for that reason among humans is rare.
What are the repercussions of promiscuity? Read any newspaper. Divorce rates are sky-rocketing. Courts are filled with cases arguing over child responsibility. Most child abuse cases involve step-parents or live-in lovers. Child murder and abandonment are no longer rare occurrences. Most family murders are the result of sexual promiscuity.
Sex is not hygienic. It would be hard to imagine any activity so adept at the transport of disease from one person to another. Bodily fluids are freely exchanged with activity that rubs the skin and membranes thin. It would also be difficult to find any disease that could not be transferred in this manner. There are about 50 known diseases that are so connected with sex as to be known as STDs (sexually transmitted diseases). In Africa there are areas where more than half of the population is infected with HIV (the AIDS virus). Asia is the new center for worldwide HIV distribution, see The AIDS Nursery of the World. Among the 18-28 age group in many American cities the rate is above 10%. HIV infection is rapidly becoming an acceptable condition in the modern culture. Sex is also a major vehicle for the spread of viral diseases such as influenza and hepatitis.
But the major loss to humanity is the time spent in pursuing and performing sex. The office romance noon 'quicky' often lasts well into the afternoon. The jockying of mate and lover requires copious mental and time expenditure. The subterfuge required for 'hanky-panky' sets the mental stage for lying and cheating in business and government. The Clinton Whitehouse oral office is an example of the enormous cost to the species of clandestine affairs. With almost everything the human does, the eventual goal is almost always sex.
Huge industries such as cosmetics, clothing, jewelry, cruises, and motels provide direct services for the sex trade. Enter 'sex' in a search engine on the internet and be inundated with pornography. Luxury items such as expensive automobiles, condos on the beach, and lavish restaurants are used by many to promote their sexual activity. Aphrodisiacs (Viagra is a huge success in the drug field and a real money maker, and women have their own version) are big business in much of the world, leading in one case to the near extinction of another species. Even military uniforms are looked on as a path to a bedroom. And when the inevitable conflict results between servicing a lover and caring for the needs of children, it is inevitably the children who suffer, even to the murder of the children in rare cases.
Sexual pleasure has been shown to be chemical in nature. Sexual activity increases the chemical flow. Sex is, therefore, addictive. To put it bluntly, sex as practiced by the modern human, is a useless, costly, troublesome, wasteful, and disease ridden bestial practice with no redeeming feature.
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Sex in The Future
The goal of man is a benign, successful and compassionate culture, where success is defined as continuous cultural development. Such a culture under normal (natural) evolution is damaging to the species since it subsidizes harmful mutations resulting in a rapidly diminishing physical and mental health. The end result of such a course is species extinction - the opposite of the goal.
If man insists on a benign, successful and compassionate culture, forbids genetic tampering in the human gene pool and at the same time insisting on unfettered reproduction without restriction of genetic quality, the human will become extinct. That policy is species suicide. Even now there are more than 8,000 cataloged genetic defects in the human gene pool, with untold thousands yet to be discovered and with thousands more added each day.
Most of the natural mutations are caused by sexual reproduction. Ironically the very feature that allowed the development of the human in the time frame experienced, has become a mortal enemy of his well being. Cloning, properly perfected, avoids these particular mutations. It would be only a temporary stop gap since it retains all of the current defects and only slows down the degeneration. No matter how the genetic structure is formed for the new human, accidents will happen in the process.
In the center of the reproductive process is the genetic structure (DNA) being passed from one generation to the next. Eventually the human must face the inevitable. He must gain engineering control of this genetic structure. Perhaps then is the time to make sweeping changes in the human.
In modern society, where male and female are considered equal and interchangeable, the female may, and is encouraged to do so, perform all of the male tasks along with her own. She may not only bear and raise the children but provide the livelihood as well. The male, deprived of his contribution to the family and his particular contribution to society, is no longer necessary. Modern feminists envision eliminating the male completely through cloning.
For some strange reason, the modern male has accepted these terms and is now little more than a stud, servicing any needy heterosexual female who happens along, or the lesbian who wishes to become pregnant. He may now act as the juvenile male, chasing all comers, all of his life, without cultural censure.
Modern cultural style dictates that the female become more masculine, complete with coarse and suggestive language and the male more feminine, complete with jewelry, carefully disarranged hair and a propensity to weep openly at the slightest provocation A result of this new independence (almost open war) between the sexes and the idea that sex is interchangeable, is a decided increase in homosexual activity.
From the new cultural viewpoint, the male will become useless baggage. With the female propensity for a feminist society, one which must constantly guard against male domination, and with the handy tool of abortion for sex selection, the male will be tolerated only in limited numbers. Through female cloning the male may be eliminated entirely.
On the other hand, the fetus, during gestation in the womb, is susceptible to widespread damage. Modern females are careless about their living style, casually aborting a fetus at will, imbibing in alcohol, tobacco and drugs and otherwise living a stressful life style. All of this effects the quality of the new human. As an alternative to a female culture, the male could develope artificial wombs that would provide near perfect environments for the fetus. Then by cloning the male, the female could be eliminated.
Perhaps the end goal is to abandon sexual reproduction altogether. The human then becomes a self-impregnating hermaphrodite. Each child would be a clone of the parent. Evolution would have then gone full circle. The genetic and social advantages are many. The species can then become truly an intellectual species. Concerts could again become events for the enjoyment of music instead of tools for seduction. Cultures would be greatly simplified.
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