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On The Great Taboo - Sex

Iqbal Latif - 5/18/2007

Sex is the most fragile and perceptive obsession of man. This is a taboo, all and sundry want but no one really wants to talk about it, it remains hidden within our inner being, trapped like a volcano spewing to burst. The need is to indulge into education and knowledge of sex as an integral requirement of our organization and prepare our lives living with the authenticity of sex as essential as food, education and environment. Regular sex drains stresses according to recent studies, where sex is taken as a taboo we find societies restricted with free will and thinking. Sexual abuse becomes rampant when freedom of expression of sexual inclination is denied. Starving individual milieu by taking away richness of carnal pleasures deprives creativity. A belief that sexual inversion is a crime against God, nature, and the State pervades all subsequent legislation on the subject. Ragnar Beer of the University of Göttingen surveyed almost 32,000 men and women for his Theratalk Project, which has found that the less sex you have, the more work you seek. Indeed, the sexually deprived have to find outlets for their frustrations: they often take on more commitments and work.





Globally, people are having sex an average of 103 times a year, with men (104) having sex more often than women (101). 35-44 year olds are having the most sex - 112 times compared to just 90 times for 16-20 year olds and 108 times for 25-34 year olds. One in five adults have sex 3-4 times a week and 5% have sex once a day. The Greeks top the league at 138 times a year, closely followed by the Croatians (134), Serbian Montenegrins (128) and the Bulgarians (127).





Great minds were great perverts too, perversion is something corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; the common charge by the moralist against anyone who raises the rage of our inner desires is "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; carnal pleasures and libidos are defining features of our masculinity and femininity. Nations like Greek high on Libido were high on their contributions to the civilization. Scientific investigation has proved in recent years that a very large proportion of persons in whom abnormal sexual inclinations are manifested possess them from their earliest childhood, that they cannot divert them into normal channels, and that they are powerless to get rid of them.

In these cases, then, legislation is interfering with the liberty of individuals, under a certain misconception regarding the nature of their offense. Experience, confirmed by scientific observation, proves that the temperate indulgence of abnormal sexuality is no more injurious to the individual than a similar indulgence of normal sexuality. The danger that unnatural vices, if tolerated by the law, would increase until whole nations acquired them, does not seem to be formidable. The position of women in our civilisation renders sexual relations among us occidentals different from those of any country--ancient Greece and Rome, modern Turkey and Persia--where antiphysical habits have hitherto become endemic. In modern France, since the promulgation of the Code Napoleon, sexual inversion has been tolerated under the same restrictions as normal sexuality. That is to say, violence and outrages to public decency are punished, and minors are protected, but adults are allowed to dispose as they like of their own persons. The experience of nearly a century shows that in France, where sexual inversion is not criminal Per se, there has been no extension of it through society.

Our civilizations are story of moral decadence and mental depravity, instead of hiding them we need to know them well and learn form the lessons of perversion and tolerate sexual inversion in a manner that may be beneficial for the social unity and cohesion. Roman emperors had unusual sexual appetites and more were guilty of murder, but somehow these five stand out as too bizarre or excessive.

Caligula opened a brothel in the palace, raped whomever he wished, reported on the woman's performance to her husband, committed incest, killed for greed, and thought he should be treated as a god. Elagabalus a transvestite emperor raped a vestal virgin and in his unsatiable sexuality, set up a brothel at the palace. disgraced his status by performing like a slave in the arena. He styled himself the Roman Hercules. Nero murdered his mother and wife. Domitian had vestal virgins executed or buried alive on charges of immorality. After he impregnated his niece, he insisted she have an abortion and then, when she died as a result, he deified her.





Beer's team found that 36 percent of men and 35 percent of women who have sex only once a week take on extra work to compensate for their wanting sex life. It's even worse for the hapless couples who have altogether lost their eye for one another. Forty-five percent of men and 46 percent of women who no longer have sex with their partner seek out other activities to salve their wanting libidos.




On the other hand, people who have sex at least twice a week don't want to work. Only 5 percent of this horny segment seeks out other activities to live out their stress.


Beer is seemingly unconcerned by the prospect that workaholics might fall into a downward spiral of all sex and no work. Indeed, the danger is clear. Beer warns, "It's important for couples to keep a close watch on their sexual satisfaction rather than wait until it's too late." And, to make matters worse for sexless workaholics, the extra work cuts into their would-be sex time. "Sexual frustration prevents you from being able to reduce your stress," Beer observes. In other words, no sex leads to even less sex.






Definitely a definite case of high libido and high productivity cannot be sustained as one of the most productive nation and fast growing GDP's of last three decades in the previous millennium Japan is least 'libido' leaning. Lovers in Japan are the least amorous, having sex just 45 times a year. Nations among the least sexually active include Singapore (73), India (75) and Indonesia (77). People worldwide are having sex for the first time at an average age of 17.3. Just over a third (35%) say they were 16 or under when they lost their virginity. Young people continue to have sex at an earlier age than previous generations: while the 25-34s lost their virginity at 17.9, the 21-24 year olds were 17.5 and 16-20 year olds were just 16.3. Women are sexually active earlier than men - at 17.2 compared with 17.5. People from Iceland are having sex younger than any other country (15.6) followed by the Germans (15.9), Swedes (16.1) and the Danes (16.1). People in India are the oldest to lose their virginity (1 9.8) followed by the Vietnamese (19.6), Indonesians (19.1) and the Malaysians (19).


What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others. The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are: