Sex is very important in a relationship. When my husband and i go without for more than a week, I can definately see a difference in our relationship. We seem to be more distant and not as close emotionally or in very good humor.
Sex is important for bonding and sharing intimacy and pleasure. Not to mention, sex is good for the human body and mind. Read this for a list of positive physical and emotional sexual side effects
http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/360/15833_sex.html
I think people would still pair up without sex to have companionship. I am not sure if those pairings would be male-female, male-male or female-female, though. I guess it would depend on the people and what type of companion they were closest to at the time.
2007-08-09 06:44:44
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answered by Melanie J 5
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Of course you would. Humans need companion ship. In history (when women were uneducated, didn't have souls, and couldn't keep up with matters of importance like men could) people still got married. Not for the sex but for the heir to the line. Once that was given, they looked for intimacy and relationships. You wouldn't have that with a spouse.
In Greek times, men had a male buddy. The companion that they shared their thoughts and feelings with, the person that knew them completely. In Victorian times, a woman would have thought nothing of kicking her husband out of the bed to share the bed with a female friend. To cuddle and discuss all matters, to unburden their soul with another person.
Humans need intimacy and relationships, the need to belong and feel special, the need to have someone as a shoulder to lean on. Rarely in the span of human existance has that person been a spouse. That is a very recent thing and coincidentally, the point when our spouse became our intimate partner, replacing same sex friends, is when marriage began to crumble. People wait longer now, more Americans are single than married, the divorce rate soared. Now perhaps those are related and perhaps it is just coincidence.
Of course sex is important for without it we would cease to exist as a species. Also it is another method to add to how we bond. But sex being equal to intimacy? Not at all. Many people have had sexual relationships with someone they have barely known their name. It doesn't meet our human needs at all. And to think we wouldn't pair off without it is completely false. We've done it for centuries.
2007-08-09 13:45:11
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answered by phantom_of_valkyrie 7
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I asked the question if sex is a deal breaker and the popular vote was of course they would stay with their mate if something happened that sex was no longer the option. I wasn't talking about old couples but younger viable people. They all were like yes and one person was honest enough to say yes, but she would be getting it from somewhere else.
Sex is primitive, in the beginning just can't get enough...then you get to know the person and well, still can't get enough.
I'm kind of hot so yeah i think i could still get a life's partner....he would just leave me when he found out the goods are off limits....forever....can u imagine life without it? sorry...i didn't really answer da question
2007-08-09 13:50:31
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answered by Greenie 4
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ppl who think sex is not important need to be shipped away from the rest of us!
2007-08-09 13:44:52
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answered by pandasex 7
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of course not. sex is what pair-bonding is for. if sex were eliminated, there would be no biological or pleasurable reason for people to pair off.
2007-08-09 13:35:54
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answered by begeeman13 6
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i dnt even know how to answer that!
2007-08-09 13:40:40
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answered by Rachel 4
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