My point was not about frequency but the actual ramifications of being deprived. No one has ever died from lack of sex. Humans suffer provable harm from social and physical deprivation, like solitary. Not so with sexhttps://twitter.com/timaree_leigh/status/990593354219089921 …
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This is not to say that sex is unimportant or that ones sexuality is dismissable. Merely that to put sex in a class of things one needs to survive is short-sighted and erases many experiences
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Replying to @StardustHijinks
Ok. Explain to me the damage caused to a person who has ready access to platonic intimacy, socialization and touch who masturbates regularly. But has no sex with others What harm are they likely to suffer?
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First, let me clarify that I don‘t think many who suffer lack of sex have access to romantic or platonic intimacy. I would also wager that many others use sex as shorthand for intimacy, possibly because they’re not able to express that need. This is patriarchal/cultural toxicity.
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Replying to @StardustHijinks @absurdistwords
That said, the base needs are subtle and far-reaching. Let me pose a question: do you think the desire to have children is important to humans? Do you think knowing that you are unable to have a child can cause psychological trauma? Can it do so even if you can’t articulate it?
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(I want to stress that I’m absolutely not making any excuses for the incel lot. I’m only objecting to the astoundingly common, and to me almost flippant notion that sex—especially in the shorthand sense, but by itself too—is a trivial matter.)
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