The most important use for intercourse is procreation and reproduction.
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My view in this debate does not accurately represent my view in real life.
- Procreation is the act of reproduction, or the production of offspring
- Sexual intercourse is the act which results in production of offspring.
- Important means of great value or significance.
- Natural Reasons Behind Reproduction
- Reproduction, before humans ever existed was a natural duty 2 beings or one being did, which resulted in the birth of offspring. It was the natural obligation of an organism to perform it. Without reproduction producing offspring, we wouldn’t be standing here today. These simple points can be demonstrated by using the simple “Premise-Premise-Premise-Conclusion” format.
- Contentions Relating to Non-Human Organisms
- Several beings, such as insects, bats, and other creatures solely reproduce to continue their species. They do not reproduce for any other reason. They do not feel pleasure and do not run multi-million dollar underground sexual businesses. So, there is no other reason for them to have sex other than to reproduce, which proves that procreation is the most important use of sexual intercourse for these beings, as it is the only use for these beings.
- It is more necessary for one to reproduce during sexual intercourse, than anything else that should occur at that time.
- Most creatures do not have anything to do with sexual intercourse, besides mating and giving birth.
2. Sexual intercourse is the act which results in production of offspring.
sexual contact between individuals involving penetration, especially the insertion of a man's erect penis into a woman's vagina, typically culminating in orgasm and the ejaculation of semen.
This article is primarily about humans. For other animals, see Animal sexual behaviour. For other uses, see Sex (disambiguation).
the physical activity of sex between two people
physical sexual contact between individuals that involves the genitalia of at least one person.
"Just as our bodies tell us what we might like to eat, or when we should go to sleep, they lay down for us our pattern of lust," says University of Toronto psychologist Edward Shorter. "Sex has always offered pleasure."
Sexuality has a lot to do with our biological framework, agreed Joann Rodgers, director of media relations and lecturer at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
"People and indeed all animals are hard wired to seek out sex and to continue to do so," Rodgers said in a recent interview. "I imagine that is evidence that people at least like sex and even if they don't they engage in it as a biological imperative."
Contraceptive use among women in Sub-Saharan Africa has risen from about 5% in 1991 to about 30% in 2006.[7] However, due to extreme poverty, lack of access to birth control, and restrictive abortion laws, many women still resort to clandestine abortion providers for unintended pregnancy, resulting in about 3% obtaining unsafe abortions each year.[8][9]
Sexual activity without the use of effective contraception through choice or coercion is the predominant cause of unintended pregnancy. Worldwide, the unintended pregnancy rate is approximately 45% of all pregnancies...
The average adult gets some action 54 times a year—or about once a week.
The global average fertility rate is just below 2.5 children per woman today.
From Wikipedia. The definition is similar to yours, but look at what is written above it.This article is primarily about humans. For other animals, see Animal sexual behaviour. For other uses, see Sex (disambiguation).In Wikipedia, one of the most common sources of information, the article "Sexual Intercourse" specifically refers to human sexual behavior. Animal Sex is for another article. I could simply pull a semantics trick by using any other definition from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse, but I simply won't do it.
From Merriam Webster, one of the even more defined and reliable dictionaries states:physical sexual contact between individuals that involves the genitalia of at least one person.The term "Person" appears again, and since sex between humans and animals is discouraged as a no-brainer, this definition refers to human sex.
heterosexual intercourse involving penetration of the vagina by the penis :
This section demonstrates that:1. Humans have been having sex without having an intended result of new life.2. Humans' brains are hardwired to have sex regardless of if they want to reproduce or not.3. In conclusion: The reason people do sex is that it brings happiness regardless if there are children or not.
The reality that sex is used for pleasure, and the existence of contraceptives and other forms of birth control, and the high rate of sex frequency and the low rate of the global fertility rate, and the number of unintended pregnancies bring a conclusion that procreation is not the most important use for sexual intercourse.
I believe Pro met their burden of proof, but they could have done better. Here is my assessment of the major points of contention:
Should the debate be restricted to humans?
-Firstly, I'd like to point out that Con should have defined this when they set up the debate. As a voter, I would rather read substantive arguments over the issue at hand rather than read a battle over definitions. Do the legwork when setting up a debate to avoid unnecessary definition battles. That being said, Pro demonstrated that sex is usually referred to as between humans, but not always. Thus, Pro is justified in extending the scope of this debate to all organisms that sexually reproduce.
Pro's opening arguments.
-Both of Pro's opening arguments were solid and remained solid by the time the debate had concluded. That reproduction enables survival is a no-brainer, and Pro takes advantage of this. As stated previously, Pro defends his extension of the debate to include all organisms, so his second argument is solid as well.
Con's prevalence=importance argument.
-As I understood it, Con argued that because so many people have sex for pleasure, pleasure is the most important role for sex. Pro countered by saying that happiness does not equal importance, which is ok, but I think Pro missed the true weakness in Con's argument. Why should prevalence equal importance? This implicit assumption is not defended by Con and is not attacked by Pro.
Conclusion: Though Pro could have done a better job countering Con's only positive argument, Pro still succeeded to a great enough degree in all the areas of contention for him to secure points for arguments.
Additional note: Con, if you set up a 2-round debate, and you put yourself in the underdog position (as you clearly did here), the last thing you should do is voluntarily waive a round. The fact that your opponent got the last word only made your decision to waive all the more devastating for your cause.
I was going to vote on this, but got pulled into handling reports (not even caught up on that, but done for today).
User: If skipping your first round, I suggest making things three rounds. As is, you offer no defense to the rebuttals against your case.
I plan to vote before time runs out.
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Thanks for the amazing debate!
What are you arguing for then? Is SI better used for something else?
If you were to make the time for arguments a week, perhaps I'd take it
That just seems too easy...
Sorry. I was trying to enhance my logical abilities by arguing in a position that I do not believe. I forgot what I was trying to do so I put PRO. Then when this comment was posted I realized what I was trying to do.
This seems rather obvious. Why is making the point important to you, if you don't mind me asking? In your view, what is the implication of sex's procreative property being more important than its pleasure property?