by Paola Fanutti

Created on: January 07, 2008

In our over medicated society, popping pills is fast becoming the solution to every sort of ailment nowadays, to the extent that people are being physically and socially controlled through medication.

Are people so incapable of controlling their sexual emotions and desires that they require a pill to prevent them from cheating? What an absurdity.

Sexual desire is not an endemic disease to be cured; it is a normal physiological response to external stimulation. All people, regardless of marital status, experience sexual attraction at various times for various individuals, and it is completely normal even for people in marriages and relationships to desire persons other than their partners.

What may or may not be normal and/or socially acceptable is how people handle those feelings of sexual attraction for someone other than their partner. People who love each other generally voluntarily agree to be monogamous and stay faithful.

If someone requires a pill to stay faithful and reduce desire, this person simply does not love his or her partner. The supreme expression of love in a relationship is the voluntary choice of fidelity that partners make to each other on an ongoing basis. What is a greater sign of love, someone who remains faithful out of his or her own free will, or someone who remains faithful because it is the side effect of a narcotic or drug?

If an indiviudal loves his or her partner, he or she should not NEED to take a pill to remain faithful. The love and commitment in a relationship should suffice.

The concept of a 'stay faithful pill' perpetuates the preposterous idea that people are unable to remain faithful through their own efforts alone, and thus require medication to assist them. Humans are not animals and are not solely governed by instinct. We are all rationally and intellectually equipped to control and master our passions and desires, if we so choose, and any pharmaceutical company's proposition to develop a 'stay faithful pill' is insulting to the human psyche.

Furthermore, even if such a pill were to be developped, how could a mass produced pill be manufactured to cater to the unique circumstances of every individual relationship, as what constituts infidelity can differ between couples?

Society should be ashamed of even considering the possibility of allowing medical technology to control even our most basic human drives.

Some would argue that there are persons who would VOLUNTARILY submit to taking a 'stay faithful' drug in their own relationship,

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