If sex is taken out of all relationships, would relationships survive?

Question

What do you reckon? Your thoughts on this and expand if you like.

By saying relationship I mean male/female relationships, be it married,living together or dating.

Just strictly on relationship standpoint.

Answer 1

Yes. Sex is a bonus to a relationship. It should never become the basis of it.

Answer 2

Yes. Friendships are types of relationships and I doubt you've had sex with all of your friends. Hopefully your relationship with your family doesn't include of sex. So yes, most types of relationship are not affected by the removal of sex since they never included sex to begin with. However, on the topic of intimate relationships with a significant (or not so significant in many cases) other that would include sex, well, many of these relationships would not survive. None of them would survive in the same way. It also really depends on if you mean that no one can have sex anymore and no longer have the urges or if you mean people are still able to but they don't for whatever reason. If people no longer had such urges then lasting intimate relationships such as in a married couple would probably end up just being really good friends. However, if people were still able to have sex and therefore had the urges that go along with it, it may even ruin relationships that would otherwise last as both parties, when together, would be in a state of constant arousal and sexual frustration. Your question is very interesting but my ultimate answer would have to be no, relationships would not survive is there was no sex. Sex is a necessary component of life as it is the reproduction process of humans. Without sex, humans would become extinct and therefore unable to form any relationships at all.

Answer 3

relationships will survive... ideally. but our society today follows a different trend. we now live in an era where relationships are taken on a day-to-day basis. Monday: I'm with this girl, Tuesday: I'm with another...sex should be exclusive for married people. with the way things work in our time, our existence has been reduced to that of irrational and purely instinctive animals. the wisdom of the olden times has been replaced by short term pleasure seeking endeavors. people who are mature enough to understand what relationships are all about can live together and still love each other despite the absence of sex. though sex is an expression of love and a special bond that two people share, there are other more sensible ways on how to express love. sex nowadays does not even require feeling or emotional attachment, that's why it's just a casual thing, which is quite degrading for humans. it only goes to show that many people today are....you finish the sentence

Answer 4

There would still be relationship between men and women - we'd still talk, but the institution of the couple would disappear.
There would be absolutely nothing to seal the bond between a man and a woman, to make that person exclusive to you. On the other hand, men and women would probably make better friends, because all of the sexual tension would be taken out of the equation.
I'm not saying love is all about sex, but without sex, what need is there of that unique bond between two people? Let's face it - couples are a sexual union; even if two people aren't having sex, the bond they have is based on our sexual nature. You would have many friends, but how could someone claim they have an exclusive access to a certain part of you?

Answer 5

Well I guess it depends on the person themself.

Long distance relationships have no sex, and some of them work out.
Then again if you were a "player" all you want is sex.

Sex should never be the basis of any relationship because relationships should be an emotional attachment to someone else.

Good Question though =o)

Answer 6

I wonder how many who answered yes, have been married and gone without sex. and extinction is based on no one ever having sex.

Yes it can survive, but most times both partners have a different view of sexual needs, and most times it seems the woment can do without ... why else would there be viagra, cialis etc etc.

Its not an easy thing to accomplish. There still has to be some intimacy ... it's truly how we connect. We need the sense of touch, why else do women want to cuddle (after sex) its the way we bond.

Bottomline,
no sex maybe relationship
no holding, no touching, no intimacy, no relationship.

Answer 7

The question of sex - or the amount of it - is something each couple must answer for themselves. Obviously, some couples seem to exist quite happily on a minimum of "shared" sex (hard to say how much they may masturbate privately), and for other couples, sex is much higher on their priority list.

Having been married for 36 years so far, I feel that for any healthy (physically + mentally) couple, sex has to play some role in keeping them together, but that's just us.

I see a lot of couples - many married - and I have to wonder why they stay together at all; their relationship only meets "minimal standards." They have separate interests, they don't appear to the outside world as "lovers." One has to wonder...

Answer 8

A multitude of relationships survive and even thrive without sexual intercourse. My Father for example, when my Step Mother became ill from a Heart Condition I watched Him for about 20 long years care for her each day sacrificing his own needs for her.
She is gone now and He has since remarried. He is very happy and I am happy for Him.
I only hope I in any similar situation would portray such Love, Grace, and Strength.
As to your question, a relationship is dependant on the Hearts of each individual and no other organ, yet of course if all reproduction ceased mankind would also.

Answer 9

I think yes.
but depends on the type of relationship - concidering what relationship actually means in the 21st century [meet>SEX>think its love>move in>SEX>get bored>cheat>break up] i think you wont be able to survive without the sex to keep you into the relationship.

but if its a true relationship.....it would stand the tests of time.... Sex is just something thats gotto take place when your comfortable with this person enough to think - hmm.... im actually considering forever with this person.....

as all popular relationships now... sex comes WAYYY before you've actually really gotten to know a person... so it becomes the basis for that relationship - and by your question - it will never last if it was established by sex forever. unless... you move on from sex to affection and then like to love.... then sex wouldnt be the basis for it.... then if the sex was gone.. yet both parties were willing to do without it.... it would....last/survive
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Answer 10

Yes, it's done everyday by overworked husbands and wives as well as other couples who have to work long hours or more than one job in order to survive. Sex is not the most important thing in a relationship, unless you're under 40.

Answer 11

Previously no, without sex, both of us will be non-existent in the first place. What relationships will there be to talk about then? Now yes, test-tube babies, intro-fertilization, etc with the help of Science. Relationships exist as long as there is communication. Without communication, relationship would die a natural death.