Antinatalism and Depression LXXXI: Libido
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-09-10

Why do we do sex?

Here's Benatar's explanation. His explanation is both a condemnation and a strawman of the entire human race throughout its entire history. How on earth can he have the knowledge to say either way? Where is the research upon which he bases this gigantic claim?

Quote:

"Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child's sake." 
― David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.

"Tell me love isn't true
It's just something that we do"
- Madonna "Don't Tell Me"

Shiva and Shakti/Parvati contemplating the yoni-lingam. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/0400_0499/pantheon/lingam/shivparvati.jpg I think we are all familiar with lingams by now. We often forget the yoni is part of the equation too, and we also overlook the fact that the combination just *is*. It's neither good nor bad, neither positive nor negative, neither existence nor nonexistence. Just like the yin-yan or so many other unitive symbols, the yoni-lingam encompasses a view of the totality of existence; the universe/multiverse itself.