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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
The value placed on it is the byproduct of artificial morality instituted by those who want to control the thoughts and actions of others. Outside of that morality, it is what you make of it and you get from ti what you want to.
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Sex = Children
Children = Genetic survival
The value of sex is the above, what we do with it is something else. It is because of the genetic survival which we are partial slaves of even when we don't think about it, that makes sex more than just an action like washing your car.
Many of our 'artificial moralities' is to preserve that genetic potential. You want your wife to be faithful and you are jealous if she is not, because non-faithful wives of non-jealous husbands had less of their husbands children and more of someone elses. This isn't HOW our evolution had to work, but its perhaps the most common way.
Lets say I'm a jealous early hominid and you are not. I'm banging your mate (and you don't care) and I'm doing mine but won't let you near mine. A good number of your children are now mine, and none of mine are yours. You are a genetic loser, goodbye.
This is a gross oversimplification but is the gist.
Its only with the advent of very effective birth control can we think of this is more 'rational' terms, but evolution takes far longer than the time we have had it.