I literally teach sex Ed lol. I know a thing or two about it. I also teach US history and there was a very clear change in sexual behavior starting around the time contraceptives began to be widely available. Things got 10x worse after Roe v. Wade. Before that it was always questionable whether contraceptives were going to work. After it, you knew that you could always get out of a pregnancy if you wanted to.
You are right, we are programmed to want sex. But that does not mean that we aren’t constantly refraining from giving into all of our sexual impulses. We do it all the time because we know that there are consequences to having sex whenever and with whatever we want to. That leads to a much better society where people are only having sexual when they are with someone they really trust.
Those things occurred as a result of sex having zero unintended consequences. If things have more risk, less people will do them. And with this we are talking the risk of going to an abortion clinic vs the risk of 9 months of pregnancy plus 18 years of raising a child. Suddenly sex would have a lot more risk and therefore would not be done as much.
Btw you can still see this in society today. Teenagers do not have sex nearly as much as college students despite arguably having more sexual desire. That is because teens realize that there is a huge risk in having sex including the risk of unplanned pregnancy due to lack of birth control at that age, social stigma, and disappointment from parents. This means that even teenagers who are famous for having lack of self control are still able to control themselves when the stakes are that high.
I literally teach sex Ed lol. I know a thing or two about it. I also teach US history and there was a very clear change in sexual behavior starting around the time contraceptives began to be widely available. Things got 10x worse after Roe v. Wade. Before that it was always questionable whether contraceptives were going to work. After it, you knew that you could always get out of a pregnancy if you wanted to.
You are right, we are programmed to want sex. But that does not mean that we aren’t constantly refraining from giving into all of our sexual impulses. We do it all the time because we know that there are consequences to having sex whenever and with whatever we want to. That leads to a much better society where people are only having sexual when they are with someone they really trust.
Those things occurred as a result of sex having zero unintended consequences. If things have more risk, less people will do them. And with this we are talking the risk of going to an abortion clinic vs the risk of 9 months of pregnancy plus 18 years of raising a child. Suddenly sex would have a lot more risk and therefore would not be done as much.
Btw you can still see this in society today. Teenagers do not have sex nearly as much as college students despite arguably having more sexual desire. That is because teens realize that there is a huge risk in having sex including the risk of unplanned pregnancy due to lack of birth control at that age, social stigma, and disappointment from parents. This means that even teenagers who are famous for having lack of self control are still able to control themselves when the stakes are that high.