If procreative instinct causes sex urge, why is it not reduced at all despite willful use of pills or condoms?

Question

In the context of the wide spread use of birth control measures, is it possible that we are inviting some unknown long term or lasting damage to our future generation's procreative or sex capabilities by going against the nature for our short term selfish objectives?

Answer 1

not condoms, but its a definite possibility with pills. i dont think a philosophers point of view can shed light on a medical question however...

Answer 2

It's possible. But speaking that the condition must be induced by the pills one takes, I wouldn't say the children would have much of an effect for they recreate the situations of natural bodily behavior. Birth control simulates pregnancy to prevent reproduction. And condoms could be compared to simply wearing a raincoat.

Answer 3

Perhaps your theory is a bit twisted off center.

The sexual urge is not about a conscious desire to procreate. It is simply a desire to have sex. Many, if not most, cases of sexual intercourse are fervently hoped NOT to produce offspring. In fact, our freedom from pregnancy has caused a sexual freedom unknown before. If anything, we would be breeding a higher libido level in our descendants.

You may see these actions as against nature, but I believe it is ALL human nature, unchanged from the beginning, and our tiny bit of time with birth control and victorian attitudes will not change it.

Answer 4

Because its an instinct. It does not work through the rational consciousness. If the instinct created a conscious desire to procreate (Thinks: "must procreate") then contraception would remove the motive.

However contraception just effects the result and the conscious knowledge of that result. The instinct is still there.

Answer 5

You're asking a medical question, that is best left to the experts. But curiously, I read somewhere that Man and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for the sheer fun of it.

And dolphins do it 7 times a day.

Answer 6

That's like barren people trying to conceive.