What is the metaphysical significance of sex?

Question

both of child bearing and otherwise.
note the key' word in the question

Answer 1

The analogy for joining with another.

Answer 2

sex is probably the ultimate existential experience because while the body does all the work the mind gets all the satisfaction..it is possible for the mind to get so overloaded with stimulation that the body will climax without ever having touched another person or having been touched by another person, or even by another part of the same person's anatomy (hand, foot, lips if you're really double-jointed).. likewise, if the mind is not in the mood the body can do whatever it wants and the act will never be culminated...

Answer 3

In the NewAge view, it activates the energy system, which is then shared and thus amplified. The more energy you raise, the more dark energy you cleanse, becoming more spiritual. Extra energy also enhances ESP and the like.
In the DaVinci Code, they refer to a pagan belief that through sex with women, you can become divine. Same idea.

Answer 4

It turns total focus towards the "self" while simultaneously allowing the complete joining of another's energy with your own.

Answer 5

"Sex is a physical capacity, but its exercise is determined by man's mind—by his choice of values, held consciously or subconsciously. To a rational man, sex is an expression of self-esteem—a celebration of himself and of existence. To the man who lacks self-esteem, sex is an attempt to fake it, to acquire its momentary illusion.

"Romantic love, in the full sense of the term, is an emotion possible only to the man (or woman) of unbreached self-esteem: it is his response to his own highest values in the person of another—an integrated response of mind and body, of love and sexual desire. Such a man (or woman) is incapable of experiencing a sexual desire divorced from spiritual values. "

"I quote from Atlas Shrugged: "The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who think—for the same reason—that sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of one's mind, choice or code of values .... But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions .... Sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which [man] cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment — just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! — an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire .... Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else .... Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love." "

Answer 6

although im 16 and still a virgin, i believe that the answer is:
-the joining of two ppl who love each other