Is Sex Good For Your Health?
Man appears to be the only higher creature naturally endowed with the power and inclination to perform sexually regardless of the possibilities of spreading his own kind.
There is no falling off of sexual appetite in the pregnant female or her mate. The human begins sexual activity soon after reaching puberty. Most people spend a lifetime performing and dreaming of sexual intercourse for the sake of pleasure and emotional fulfillment.
It seems clear that sexuality serves a higher function in humans, but doctors, scientists, psychologists, priests and artists cannot even begin to agree on what this higher function is and how or if it should be regulated to improve human well-being.
Western scientific texts are curiously contradictory about the healthfulness of sexual intercourse. Many sex manuals today praise the restorative qualities of extensive sexual activity. Others, equally authoritative and based on psychiatric studies, caution against sexual overindulgence.
Which school of thought is correct? When does too much sex become unhealthy?
The solution is of utmost simplicity: joyous and loving sexual intercourse is healthful in the highest degree. Much depends, of course, on the path you are taking through life.
If part of your mind is fixed on sex, you must live out that impulse, study it, and know its source. But sexual activity without love is physically and mentally destructive to any path.
Love will spontaneously transform any couple to a higher level of awareness. It’s like climbing a mountain slope with loose rock scree—you take three steps up and slide back down one. This pace may lead to emotional and mental happiness found at the top of the first ridge. But it may deprive you—for the lack of time and energy—from seeing the valleys, mountains, rivers and ocean beyond. This is the fullness of life, the attaining of a lasting experience of yourself.
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