The Meaning of Sex
Subtitled:  The Meaning of Human Existence Laid Bare
by Edwin L. Young, PhD
November 23, 2009

Sex is first, and above all else, a purely unadulterated mutual, mindless, un-tethered, powerful, sempiternal search for a subterranean drama of seduction.  It is mutual because every human knows that there is another out there somewhere, hopefully with the next encounter, longing to begin that subterranean drama of seduction.

First, there is the look.  The gaze held between them for oh so slightly overlong duration.  Next, the feminine counterpart of the dyad turns the head just slightly to the right and down like the submissive dog facing an aggressive encounter.  They each wait for a pretext encounter.  When t arrives, somewhere deep in the lascivious interior of both, their churning impatience and longing anticipation gives way to primitive, animalistic excitement as the drama begins, ever so covertly at first then giving way to a discernible, vigilant, exclusive preoccupation with each other.  The ‘others’ faded quickly from awareness.  Their super vitalized bodies come closer and move in perfect synchronization while searching for a way to chance upon a secret erotic cloister for their first libidinous tryst.

Once in their impatiently awaited hideaway, the pressure of the opposing forces of waiting for the other’s move versus rushing in with abandon, simultaneously enervating and scintillating, builds the craving to intolerability.  When only a barely detectable movement acts as the starting gun and they virtually lunge at one another throwing all prior restraints of seduction décor to the winds.  No longer humans but animals in heat they impulsively begin to ravage one another’s bodies, each dominated by an irresistible drive to have the other catapult their senses to an explosive cum.

Alternatively, much earlier in the ritual, they reach that point in the subterranean drama of seduction in which their mutual intent remains covertly, only inconclusively, suspected by each.  Yet, they find a way to be alone together.  They seemingly accidentally touch each other on non-sexual parts.  Together, they subtly egg each other on.  At first, perhaps his hand rests innocently on her leg, near her knee.  Eventually, he will be slowly sidling his hand under her hem, inching his way up her inner thighs as he is wordlessly egging her on to spread them slightly and then to widen and expose more, with both longing for more, on his way to her luscious hidden treasure.  She longing to be, at first gently, invaded and then, with her withering thighs hungrily waiting, her pelvis begins rising, he is triggered by this and frantically, suddenly, will be pounding into her thrashing magma of wet, wantonly unleashed lust.  They quickly are virtually banging their pelvises together, moaning, screaming for harder, faster, deeper, and screaming lustful obscenities that never, ever would thusly be uttered elsewhere.  Finally, finally, his lava gushes deep into her while her inseminated lush bloom bursts open with a carnal crescendo to be taken, deeply and slavishly.  Both are now given totally over to their exquisite sultry, sweaty, heavenly, ephemeral heat.  Without reservation, they are, in this moment, devoted to their mutual life of sensuously opulent, decadent craving for unending, animalistic, sexual indulgence.  Their life’s longing, their deepest criteria for fulfillment, is felt to be, finally, met.  Universally, a truly ecstatic experience!

And that, dear friends, is the meaning of human existence!

The unvarnished truth is that humankind is pretty much the way Jean Paul Sartre and Charles Darwin defined us, just "a useless passion" and "merely here to reproduce” like all the other creatures.  If it were not that we were mostly unconsciously driven to have sex, we would not even reproduce.  Language, and civilizations resulting from it, has made us think we are above being just as animalistic as the rest of the species.  Language paved the way for us being the absurdly hypocritical, self-deceiving prudes that we are.  During the social evolution of our many races and civilizations, mores for controlling this insatiable drive for sexual pleasure have arisen and eventually been transformed into countless variations that have often stood in glaring contrast to each civilization’s own precedents and even more so when compared to their contemporary civilization cohorts.  One lesson to be taken from the chimerical catalogue of sexual mores is that there are no absolute moral imperatives for sexual behavior.  Largely, the majority of people living under any set of moral codes relating to sex, at some time in their lives and in some manner, secretly or openly, flagrantly violate them.  Officials, particularly religious officials, promulgate myths that sexual conventions are obeyed and honored by the majority.  Public disagreement with acknowledged leading officials swiftly brings opprobrious public censure.

One of the principle dynamisms propelling change in sexual mores is technology.  Technology changes the spatial distribution of people, creates domiciles and all sorts of other hideaways, for example the automobile, that provide the opportunity for discarding these mores in order to practice whatever sexual preferences may deviate from accepted conventions.  Technology proffers inventions such as contraceptives and sexual toys, if you will, that promote experimentation.  Taken together, both technology and population distribution pave the way for adventuring into new forms of social interaction ultimately designed to circumvent prevailing sexual mores. 

In time, any taboo can be discarded if the physical arrangements and technological innovations make it possible to do so.  Human sexuality is famously plastic and will quickly seize the opportunity break the shackles of outmoded, inhibiting mores, and taboos.  Humans can experience sexual pleasure from innumerable objects and sources and in an infinite variety of ways.  Paradoxically, humans can even experience sexual satisfaction from pain inducing practices.  Each taboo is like a dam.  The pressure of water will eventually find a crack to seep through, forging a larger and larger crack until the dam breaks.  Censorious moral authorities will try, with all of their might and repertoire of manipulations, to hold back the tide of a waning sexual convention.  This will always fail and that convention will recede into archives of sexual history.   

Hence, this dialectic of sexual history has put humankind in a deadly struggle between its animalistic, uncontainable drive for sexual fulfillment and it evolutionary drive for survival.  For almost all species, typically, sexual fulfillment eventually leads to reproduction at some time during their life span, regardless of the fact that that usually is not the goal.  Were this not to be the case, the species would become extinct.  Reproduction once served the purpose of the survival of our species.  Unrestrained, reproduction eventually led to overpopulation.  Now, overpopulation is resulting in an insufficient supply of food, water, and energy.  What is worse, however, is that overpopulation and the near miraculous advances in science and technology have led to an exponentially increasing pollution of the atmosphere and to global warming.  The combination of these factors will lead to the extinction of, not just humankind, the creature most successful at surviving, but all life forms on earth.  All too soon, all that may be left are the primordial organisms living far beneath the earth’s surface. 

This meaning of human existence has become the force orchestrating its own extinction.
The question for humankind is whether it can sufficiently evolve socially so that it can reverse this deadly tide.  Sex is merely one factor dynamically interlocked with a multitude of systems on multiple levels of structures.  To reach our goal of surviving, our species first must gain the objectivity to identify the barriers preventing its success.  Therefore, we must have the will and moral courage to make the radical changes in culture that are needed to remove those barriers.  To do this means to begin to understand the nature of Natural Systems and to apply its methods of analysis and reform. 

If humankind achieves this goal, it will have arrived at a new meaning of human existence.

http://TheNaturalSystemsInstitute.org
The Duplex Pyramids Theory

Reference from the TV History Channel:  

The History of Sex, http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=193878
A sixty-minute coverage of sex in the ancient world--from Mesopotamians, who viewed adultery as a crime of theft, to Romans, who believed that squatting and sneezing after sex was a reliable method birth control.  We also look at revealing Egyptian and Greek practices--from the origins of dildos, to intimate relations between Egyptian gods and goddesses, to the use of crocodile dung as a contraceptive.