Sex: Its True Meaning (Genre: Personal Relationships)

Sex is the physical union of a man and a woman for the purpose of enjoying physical intimacy with or without the intended aim of having progeny. In other words, it is the act of making physical oneness. In the days gone by sex was what followed naturally, a marriage and was considered sacred in all cultures. Pre-marital sex and extra-marital sex are shunned by all holy books including the Bible, the Gita and the Quran. However, since the breakdown of traditional family values and family set-ups, sex has become corrupted with just being a source of deriving sensual pleasure and has lost as a loving phenomenon, chiefly in the West.

Sex today is business, with the sex industry operating in most countries of the world. It employs prostitutes, pimps and brothel owners, the media and entertainment industries and links with the police and administration in some of them so as to allow it to be operated profitably. The corporate and political sectors utilize the sex industry, quite shamelessly for its own good among others who use it individually. Prostitution today is legalized in the West displaying gross negligence to the establishment in these countries of families, moral societies and purity of life.

God created sex as a means to bind a man and a woman with emotions and love. They were supposed to live together a life in union and rear a family of children. However today people do not wish to take the responsibility of having anything to do with children and just want fun out of the sexual orgasm. This is deplorable as they moreover believe in having multiple sex-partners thereby going against God's wishes and dictum. Sex had the original meaning of creating the progeny but today it is lust, money, business and so on.

                                  

One has to be careful where one is going in life. Similarly one should use his emotions and physical union carefully. Sex can be both a nourishing or a breaking experience. It depends on how sacredly we treat it. If you are serious about your life and actions you will be serious about doing it right. Most people who have sex on dating day or illicit sex do not seem to be very happy or content with any of their partners and while being immoral they disturb their mental peace as having too many partners is a mental burden.

 

In a relationship, more so in a marriage, what is needed is companionship that is built on respect, love and care. To this like-mindedness can surely add a layer of trust and liking but sex is not a prerequisite. You can live without sex but not love, respect and care. Sex is being promoted by vested interests. Its participants have a background of suspicion, mistrust, adultery, broken families, poverty, exploitation, cheating and are totally unconvinced about the merits of traditional family values. People are so blinded by sex that they do not mind sleeping with a new sex-mate every day, cheat their spouses or overlook the needs of their kids and others in their fold, incest, stealing mates and all other, in total disregard to sanity. This is indeed bad for the society.

As mentioned many times before by me, sex is a myth that it can give you peace and happiness if it is outside the realms of a marriage. Only love and rather true love is what has the power of giving anyone true peace, satisfaction and happiness. The Indian view of marriage and sex is thereby worthy of utmost appreciation as it has helped the society maintain the traditional family values by keeping the divorce rate really low despite all the foreign invasions of the past or the corruption and poverty since 1947, the year of independence. The author has met many people who later repent their past of adultery. It would be wise to learn while there still is time left on our side. 

It is the author's strong suggestion for people to do a careful introspection and ask themselves if they have the right values and morality when developing physical intimacy. People should remain virgins till they marry and remain loyal thereafter and enjoy all that is there to be offered, as told by the Scriptures. All is not lost as long as you are willing to hold the mirror for yourself and see. Sex within marriage is a win-win.