by Jean-Michel Desmeules

Created on: March 31, 2009

As animals (and yes we are animals despite our faculty to think), we have a natural need to procreate (otherwise we wouldn't exist would we) and we've evolved an interesting sexuality, of which our brain plays a big part. Our sexual organs (including the brain) make the act of procreation very enjoyable and specialists are now in the midst of discovering how good the act of procreation is for our health, body and our minds. Man's peculiar set of evolutionary skills, mainly our brain, means that we can question our physical need and decide if we wish to engage in it or not: but ultimately anyone does wants sex. Plain and simple: we need to! We can say we don't, we can close the door on it and we can lie to ourselves for a lifetimeBut the desire stays there with no escape. Is it wrong that we should have

to engage in sex? Well it is if you see yourself as a slave to sex! However, it is a part of the human experience: a normal activity to engage in and enjoyWait just a minute! Now I don't mean to say we should start running in the streets mating with as many people as possible: that was the 60s and it wasn't the answer! Don't get me wrong, the 60s were part of the answer; we needed to rekindle with the beauty and natural pleasures of sex, but like anything else on earth, there's virtue in not overdoing one thing

Following the sexual revolution, was an increase in awareness to HIV and subsequently other STDs, religious groups once again used the opportunity to state that sex is evil (of course what's new there), TV executives made billions with after school specials profiting from parent's fears that their child were having sex, and this is just to mention a few of today's sexual woes. Apart from the religious groups (which are wrong and that's my opinion whether you agree or not), there were good reasons for these woes: kids were and still are having unprotected sex; STDs are serious and some are deadly; and all things considered it is infinitely better that we engage in sex knowingly. But instead of discussing the issue full on, a virtual moral prohibition of sex, with ridiculous censorship of any and all media created a nice nesting place for itself at the heart of our current North American culture. To this day, parents feel more comfortable letting their kids watch terrible violence rather than a rogue nipple!

Combined with this is the ever increasing hypersexualization of our daily lives: internet (the worst) offers so many possibilities of seeing people engaged

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