Sexuality And Reproduction

Conflating sexuality with sexual intercourse and having sex with reproduction is not exactly abnormal among non-rationalists.  Phrases like "spreading genes" or "desire to reproduce" are used as if sexuality in any way reduces down to these things.  The erroneous reductionism behind these words might be asserted as a shallow excuse for promiscuity, trying to orient life around sex, or treating the opposite gender as only a means for sex, but even then, literally almost no one talks or lives as if what they truly want is to "pass on their genes" by producing children when they express interest in sex.  In fact, birth control and, more importantly, masturbation, sexual introspection, and the mere logical possibility of having sex for the sake of relational or existential purposes would already necessitate that sexuality is not in itself about creating children, which is the way that one's genes would be spread.  Anyone who does not want to have kids cannot at the same time possibly want to spread their genes without having conflicting desires, and if they do not realize this about themselves, that alone reflects great irrationality.

There are so many logical proofs that sexuality is not ultimately about genes and children that it would be easy for someone who did realize this about their own worldview, however, to easily disprove it.  That asexuals can still masturbate or have sex and that people can enjoy masturbation when the act has nothing to do with a partner or reproduction whatsoever proves that sexuality is broader than intercourse, and intercourse itself is not at all strictly about reproduction.  Reproduction is a happenstance byproduct of some intercourse and even an unwanted side effect of sex between men and women in some cases.  Sexuality is so much more personal, existential, and, when it involves a partner, relational than could be true if the absolutely erroneous reproductive reductionism was even logically possible.  Sex is one of many acts that expresses sexuality, and sexuality encompasses far more than interactions with partners or even bodily actions altogether.  It is has mental and physical aspects, but the most fundamental parts of sexuality all pertain to the mind--to pleasure, longing, the desire for fulfillment, consent, intentionality, and rationalistic awareness of the many logical truths about sexuality.  Moreover, if there are any moral obligations regarding interpersonal sexual acts at all, it does not matter how anyone feels; there would be the duty to act or not act in a certain way no matter how strongly anyone wishes otherwise.

Reproductive sexual reductionism is an obvious impossibility that only deluded insects assume is true.  Too irrational and pathetic to understand even part of the nuance, depths, and core of sexuality, fools might pretend like they are trying to spread their genes when they are only desperately trying to find some sort of existential awakening or personal intimacy to share with a fellow human being.  Pleasure does not resolve the psychological, moral, or practical difficulties of our lives; it might only distract us from them for a time, if even that.  Even asexuals can understand and experience that sexuality is pleasurable, and thus they, like everyone else, can understand that some people might throw themselves after sex out of despair as they feel trampled by life.  Allowing personal pain to fuel idiotic hedonistic beliefs or making false or unverifiable assumptions are the only ways anyone ends up even coming close to the sheer stupidity of thinking sexuality is just about intercourse, or that the act of sex is really about genes or reproduction.

Some people might indeed have sex specifically or mostly to produce a child, though even this could have very different motivations behind it, from bonding with a partner over shared devotion to parenting (which involves actual commitment once the baby is outside the womb) to blindly perpetuating the human species to trying to repopulate a community after some travesty devastates its numbers.  Other people do not.  Some people do not have sex at all or are not interested in experiencing it to begin with.  Rationalists, however, are the only people who could possibly understand the real nature of sexuality in all of its emotional, physical, social, spiritual, existential, and moral aspects, all of which can only be true or knowable thanks to reason.  Since scientific laws and experiences are not only secondary to the necessary truths of logic that govern all things, and since everything about the real appearance of the external world is unknowable except when it comes to possibilities and probabilities, it takes a very unintelligent person to genuinely think that sexuality is primarily about sexual intercourse and that intercourse is merely or mostly about genetic reproduction.