Sex is not only a human condition, it's an animalia condition. Everything from particularly complicated microbes to elephants, all of them would go extinct were it not for sex.
To preach against it categorically, is to preach extinction. You literally have something wrong with you, if you derive no pleasure from the concept of reproduction, and evolution will write your genetics out of existence for it.
Strictly speaking, the meaning of life can be boiled down to sex. You are a processor and carrier of genetic code, to be melded and reproduced. Those outside this system exist to support those within it, and those who are a danger to the successful system are removed from it. This is true not only in humans, but all societal life forms from lion prides to horse herds, it isn't a socially created phenom, it's a biologically created one.
Is it any wonder that the most long-lasting, oldest, and most successful arts have mostly been towards this purpose?
A video game, movie, comic, novel, folktale, or play that features ideal genetics and reproductive fitness humans will generally be more successful than one featuring those who are not. Post-puberty but pre-middle-age humans who are physically fit with healthy secondary sexual characteristics, symmetry, and high energy (who is probably great with kids) are attractive, and biologically, we want them to succeed in their quest because we want them to reproduce. Their villain, a post-middle-age human who is physically infirm in some way with asymmetry and disease-marked (and probably not the best with kids), we do NOT want to reproduce, and thus want to lose to said attractive hero.
It's a cheap shorthand to establish Goodness and Evilness via Attractiveness, but it works, because humans ultimately are still animalia.
To go against this trope not as a one-time Aesop example, but as a way of life, is to deny humans their humanity. It is to reduce them to machines, unthinking, unfeeling, uncaring. And anyone that into dehumanizing not only their enemies but their allies as well, should never be given ANY kind of power over ANY life form.
Sex is not only a human condition, it's an animalia condition. Everything from particularly complicated microbes to elephants, all of them would go extinct were it not for sex.
To preach against it categorically, is to preach extinction. You literally have something wrong with you, if you derive no pleasure from the concept of reproduction, and evolution will write your genetics out of existence for it.
Strictly speaking, the meaning of life can be boiled down to sex. You are a processor and carrier of genetic code, to be melded and reproduced. Those outside this system exist to support those within it, and those who are a danger to the successful system are removed from it. This is true not only in humans, but all societal life forms from lion prides to horse herds, it isn't a socially created phenom, it's a biologically created one.
Is it any wonder that the most long-lasting, oldest, and most successful arts have mostly been towards this purpose?
A video game, movie, comic, novel, folktale, or play that features ideal genetics and reproductive fitness humans will generally be more successful than one featuring those who are not. Post-puberty but pre-middle-age humans who are physically fit with healthy secondary sexual characteristics, symmetry, and high energy (who is probably great with kids) are attractive, and biologically, we want them to succeed in their quest because we want them to reproduce. Their villain, a post-middle-age human who is physically infirm in some way with asymmetry and disease-marked (and probably not the best with kids), we do NOT want to reproduce, and thus want to lose to said attractive hero.
It's a cheap shorthand to establish Goodness and Evilness via Attractiveness, but it works, because humans ultimately are still animalia.
To go against this trope not as a one-time Aesop example, but as a way of life, is to deny humans their humanity. It is to reduce them to machines, unthinking, unfeeling, uncaring. And anyone that into dehumanizing not only their enemies but their allies as well, should never be given ANY kind of power over ANY life form.