Life on earth is a vast tree with myriad branches, with each one of us a leaf. Through sex we join to the growing branches. Tantric miniature, Rajasthan, nineteenth century. Linking to the tree of life.
Sex is our second most powerful drive after survival.
There are good biological reasons for this, since it determines the reproduction of the species and the spreading of individual genes. This is not to diminish its meaning but rather to increase it. Life on earth is a vast tree with myriad branches, on which each of us is a leaf. Sex is the activity through which we join to the growing branches. It links us to all life in the past, and all human life in the future.