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I think a lot of it is fear of your partner starting a new relationship with someone else and leaving you. Sex without emotional intimacy is possible and common, but it's very easy for emotion to spark and grow. Once that emotion is there, it's very tempting to let it grow, and very hard to break things off with the other person, even at the risk of losing your existing relationship. If you want to maintain emotional exclusivity, your partner has to have the willpower to end any liaison should it get emotional, and the self-awareness to realize that emotion is there before it gets too big. A lot of people lack that combination of high self-awareness and strong willpower.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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