Having Sex

I'VE HAD SEX. I'm sixty five years old, never married, but I've had sex, from time to time. Everybody loves sex. its the only game in town. what amazes me about sex is the lengths to which people are willing to go, what people are willing to put up with, to get some. Sex is great, but it aint that great, at most, a few moments of supreme pleasure before the big cool off. I've always been lazy about chasing sex, never been willing to really put myself out for sex, to go the extra mile, probably because I always felt that my efforts would be unrewarded. I'm too lazy to dress properly and go out, to lazy to make small talk with strangers in a bar. I've never had any special compelling urge to marry, although I've always been open to the idea. Obviously, sex is urgently necessary for human survival. Still, when I see people enter into one unhappy marriage after another, and sleep with anything that moves between marriages, and serial date until they've gone out with everybody in the phone book, I begin to wonder. Are there alternatives, other than spaying and neutering? One alternative is celibacy, accompanied perhaps by a vigorous masturbation regimen. In American culture, masturbation is a taboo topic, because of our puritanical roots, but in fact masturbation may be teh best solution ever devised for sexual satisfaction without risk. To abstain from sex, and from seeking sex for extended periods of time can yield benefits, can almost be like overcoming a dependency or addiction. Celibacy is not necessarily the best option, but all options considered, it has its merits. the best alternative might be to marry young, remain married for life, and to enjoy a healthy vigorous sex life unto death. it sometimes seems depressing how seldom people achieve that in the western world. then too, multiple chain marriages, in which everyone has as many spouses as he or she desires, is an option which seems strange to us modern Americans, but might have merit in some future human society.the advantage to this would be there would be less pressure on each individual member of the marriage to provide everything necessary to sustain a happy marriage. arranged marriages, which throughout history have been widely employed in various cultures, have advantages in terms of stability, but are not a popular idea in a free market culture where individual freedom and autonomy is of supreme importance. It may well be that humanity has not yet developed the best method of dealing with sex, reproduction, child rearing, and societal health. Most likely not; there are, after all, no areas of human endeavor in which human cultural evolution has arrived at a satisfactory culmination. Why should sex be any different?