&gt;Why does sex seem to get a pass for &quot;you can&#x27;t control your biological impulses&quot; when other drives don&#x27;t?<p>You probably have ancestors who could control their eating, but you have no ancestors who successfully controlled their sex drive. Most of our DNA probably comes from the most sexually active&#x2F;driven humans that ever existed. Humans who could control it or were not as sexually driven didn&#x27;t shape our DNA as much.