Is sex a need or a want?

To me, sex is a need and a want. It has two sides like Friday in how it's a business day and a weekend. But what do you think?

 

It is definitely not a need. You won't die without it. All of the human species might, if everyone decided not to have it. Still, the earth could survive without us.

 

The three confusions:

Friday is confusion.
Anarchy is confusion.
Sex is confusion.

 

But does an urge to have sex make sex a need"?

 

Speaking of sex is confusion. Anyone remember two girls and one cup? Did the pooh smell good to them or did it stank to them? It was prolly both. See how a fetish is confusion. And a fetish is under the sex category.

 

Nope. An urge could indicate a want OR a need.

 

a fetish is not confusion. it's just something you dont understand/like but they do. if anything it's confusion if the person with the fetish is really insecure about it, but the insecurity is the confusion, not the sexuality.

if you have an urge to buy a chocolate bar doesn't mean you have the need for it. sex isn't just used to reproduce, so you can't bring it to a science.

 

Accord to many psychologist sex is a need, one that not only settles your sexual urges but also helps to fight stress, depression and keeps the parts working longer. Basically sex is needed to be a healthier, more productive human being.

 

sex is a combination of things happening though. Psychologists have found that human contact is a must for life, but i don't see how sexual release is a must. I can see how it relieves stress, but i dont think sex is a need. Also a factor is expectations and peer acknowledgment. and so contact is a need, but sex is just a big plus haha

 

C'mon guys this took 5 minutes.

 

SPOILER ALERT: Some elderly people die virgins.

Sad... but true.

 

But not everyone can be the Pope.

 

Yes could if they had to. Or wanted to.

 

Impossible, people without penises are excluded from being the Pope by the rules so are people ya know who aren't catholic.

 

I didn't mean it like that. I thought you meant anyone could be chaste like the pope.

 

Who knows... i always want too but i think i have an addiction to be completely honest

 

It's not a need in that you won't die without it, but it's more than something you want. It's a biological imperative, that is, we feel like it's something we must do. I suppose by "imperative" I mean the same thing as "compulsion," but without the negative connotations. It's like a compulsion that is biologically programmed into us. And when my body speaks, I listen!

 

sex is what life is about, we grow up to get good jobs, impress our lovers, and eventually find a mate and reproduce with them, its what everyone does. I think sex is a need.

 

Exactly. In that sense it's both a need and a want.

 

Its a need for the species, without it we'd be extinct. So from a purely biological viewpoint (what our bodies tell us) it IS a need. Do some research on men who abstain from sex, its scary. Bad physically and mental effects!!!