Tangent, and not a particularly religious one:<p>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>- We&#x27;re driven to eat as well, and have a growing problem with obesity. At least, when you eat too much, you&#x27;re only harming yourself. Yet, we (the society &quot;we&quot;) tut at the obese, in some cases make fun of them. &quot;Why can&#x27;t you control yourself?&quot; we say. &quot;Put down the fork!&quot; says another.<p>- We have a drive to be social, yet humans are pretty well controlled when it comes to expressing that drive at the wrong times in the wrong places.<p>- It&#x27;s expected to be protective of your family, but in another time, that would have meant meting out lethal punishment to an interloper. Now, doing that lands you a prison sentence.<p>Without moralizing on any of this:<p>The drive to reproduce, we somehow don&#x27;t expect people to stop screwing when it&#x27;s likely that doing so will have <i>really awful</i> consequences for a perfectly innocent life. Either now, in the case of a virus causing congenital defects, or in other cases, such as not being able to support a child. We throw our hands up, say &quot;welp, abstience doesn&#x27;t work, knock yourselves out&quot;, and try to work around the problem with birth control (something which still has a &lt;100% chance of stopping unwanted births)<p>Why is this? Surrender to the implacable force of human nature doesn&#x27;t seem to be the answer, seeing as how we&#x27;ve  at least partially tamed most other impulses, or at least refused to give up.