What you believe controls what you do. Simply put, when considering the metaphysics of sex there are sexual pessimists and sexual optimists.
Sexual pessimists believe sex is bestial and debasing. Humans are reduced to animals by sex. Sex decreases one's spirituality and draws one away from God. Virginity is laudable. Procreation is the only purpose to sex. Sex reduces one's beloved to the status of being an object to satisfy your animal lusts instead of a person.
The problem with this view is that unlike most other animals, humans can decline to have sex, choose to have sex, choose between sexual partners, accept or decline to participate in whatever one's partner has in mind by way of sex. Choice separates us from animals.
Sexual optimists believe that sex brings people together, binding them to one another. Sex is also for pleasure and is good for you emotionally, spiritually, and physically. One's beloved is a partner with whom you're sharing yourself. Virginity is a handicap.
There are problems with this view as well since sex can cause problems. Sex with just anybody at all can indicate emotional problems. If there is any incompatibility between partners, sex will bring that incompatibility out into the open. There's no where to run; no where to hide when it comes to sex.
Sexual pessimists make poor bedfellows and sexual optimists can be all too generous. They often marry each other...and then the fighting starts.
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