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I'm 52 and a virgin. The other day I was listening to a specialist saying that sex was needed as food or sleep.
I've always lived quite a normal life without it and never noticed any difference in my health from that. If I didn't eat or sleep, I'm sure there would be consequences.
Doesn't that preconceived notion that sex is a basic need sound ridiculous to you?
Yes. Absolutely. A majority of psychologists in the West have been harping about sex like it's water.
I'm sure there are populations of people who would agree that sex is not a necessity like food is.
People are not all the same, and to say that sex is as essential as a basic need for breathing discounts the idea that self-fulfillment can be reached in other ways, and in a way, proves a social-cultural dominant value rather than an actual human need for survival. It's like saying people who live in celibacy are less human or aren't as happy because they aren't engaging in sensual pleasures.
People vary.
Maybe the notion that sex is essential is in agreement with social Darwanistic values of the survival of the fittest, which largely contrasts the philosophy based on evolution occurring as a result of survival of the pact rather than the individual.
If not, then we would not have such a strong, intrinsic sex drive.
I believe the need is different for women.
Healthy in what way? Having sex doesn't make you a well adjusted person. Being a well adjusted person makes you a well adjusted person. I know some guys who have no problem getting laid but are pretty unmotivated and unremarkable in every other aspect of their lives. Before people jump too extremes and think that I'm saying that 50 year old virgins are more likely to have are superior or any other knee jerk responses, I'm not saying that at all but being able to get laid will not instantly solve any other problems or shortcomings one has.
This thread should have ended on page one when OP said this:
If you are so great without sex...........why do you masturbate so often? Obviously you have some kind of need.
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Originally Posted by dejaentendu19
Masturbation doesn't count as sex and the classic definition of sex involves a penis entering a vagina. A lot of new interpretations of sex have come about, but everything else might as well be on a scale with a line that isn't defined as well as the original definition. By your thought process "wet dreams" will eventually be called sex.
He is saying there is no need for sex, the goes on to say he masturbates twice a day. His whole argument is that he does not need sex. Sorry, masturbating twice a day, while not sex, suggests a need for something. It kills his premise.
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