ScarletRuby I did not give a list of reasons people have sex. I was interested in how people had come to their way of thinking, in terms of reasons to have sex sooner rather than later. I don't much mind if people want to have sex because the cat has to go to the vets or because they can't find anything interesting on tv.
Pocket yes all good points and I agree, this is very much how people probably think. Its a shame we have finite resources, or perhaps not, and yet we still have people who have no sandwiches and no homes. Tis a strange world indeed. Because the liberal conceptual link between mind and body, casts the body as something which is individually owned (like a car/house/banknote) to be disposed of by individuals as they see fit. And yet we have less respect for some bodies (ie sex workers/homeless/poor people), we simply don't extend the same rights to them.
Plus there are other weird anomalies about trust, sharing and proximity. We share our bodies through choice but not our beds over night. Howeber I am sure most would agree we would feel less affronted by sharing a bed with someone than have that person rape us. Then we revert to the idea of bodily integrity having privilege over other forms of person property. So I wonder what is more natural to share, ones body with ones neighbor or a sandwich? (or bed)
Which again leads back to the idea that under any system of thinking (traditional, modern, liberal, socialist) that what matters is that women have sex because they want to, not because of social pressures, written rules, or because they think they have to. Op does indeed smack of resentment.
Perhaps next we could discuss whether we can train men like dogs to sit up and beg for treats, would this mean that all dogs would wait for treats.