Peter makes a very good point.

We all learn from the interaction and conflict of ideas. And

ideas in conflict can be a worthwhile and beneficial thing.

But all of us on this site, as people, should remember that more brings us together than divides us.

Bringing people....together. Now, there's an appealing idea!!

Madscientist,

I agree with your point about outgrowing things. I have been an extreme sexual libertine, and now I want to experience other things. However, now I am a slave to sexual addiction. So even though I am sexually "free", I do not have freedom.

Spiritually, I have a hope (maybe foolish) that humans can aspire to something lasting. Sex is just too transitory. I would like to see what else there is out there, but can't get out my door without getting caught up with some new sexual urge. What was once fun has now become tedious, and I need a rest.

If you look at it objectively, a sex drive is just the urge to stick your a body part into a hole in another person's body (or vice versa). While that certainly can be fun, even rewarding for a while, in the end it seems silly and futile. And it is definitely not worth dying of AIDS just to participate in a such transitory and silly act.

Hindu philosophy says that each person must outgrow each stage in life, with the three stages being the repressive (ghostly) stage, the hedonistic (demonic) stage, and the spiritual (saintly) stage. Each stage is rewarding for a while, but eventually each soul must move on. For people who started out repressed, then sexual experimentation would seem quite freeing. However, for those who started out as libertines, then learning to transcend sex becomes freedom.

SD

It is nice to see that somebody understands where I am coming fro, since we both appear to have the same problem.