>>12211370It's a behavioural drive that has been an evolutionary linchpin for most mammals for dozens of millions of years and specifically for primates for about 30-40 million years and even more specifically for hominins (take a look at bonobos). The sexual drive is responsible for every single individual human being walking around on the earth today and will be responsible for our species' continued existence.
No cultural notion that will have existed for at most 10,000 years (which would be the most likely entry point for philosophies of sexual control, with the advent of sedentism and agriculture) will be able to repress such a fundamental behavioural drive (both in terms of age, how ingrained it is, and in terms of its strength/relevance to our existence as shaped by evolution).
Politicians, religious figures, social leaders and scientists need to take a good long look at the developmental history of the sexuality of our species through genetic research (and if possible in the near future, genetic analysis of prehistoric and pre-human biological material), studies of sexual dimorphism changes in our lineage in the past 100 million years and comparative behavioural analysis with other apes primarily and primates secondarily. Social values, laws, customs and beliefs need to be structured around the reality of human sexuality, its role, its function in the body and the mind and its biological expression through drives, perception and behaviour.
