2. Sexual intercourse is the act which results in production of offspring.
Objection: My opponent failed to use definitions from a clear source. My opponent had the opportunity to cite which dictionary or encyclopedia he/she cited the evidence from. I will counter this by stating evidence from various dictionaries and/or encyclopedias that state that Sexual Intercourse is for humans, and those definitions can bring complete and utter destruction to your argument as a whole, as that sexual intercourse refers to humans in these CLEARLY CITED SOURCES.
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.
The definition from the front page of Google. Now, the definition refers to "man" and "woman", so to dig into this.
The definition above clearly states that sexual intercourse is for humans and no other animals as the term Man refer to a masculine human and the term Woman refers to a feminine human. You can't call a horned goat a woman, nor a cross-bred horse a man.
Move on to the next one.
From Wikipedia. The definition is similar to yours, but look at what is written above it.
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 Oxford, one of the dictionaries, the definition states as follows:
the physical activity of sex between two people
The term "People" refers to humans.
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.
Conclusion: I have used a total of four(4) sources to prove that sexual intercourse is a type of human activity.
Now, I am not done yet, I have to justify how sexual intercourse is used otherwise by humans.
I will, again, let the text speak.
"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."
This section demonstrates that::
1. Internally and cognitively, Sex offers pleasure.
2. Humans have been doing sex for pleasure in the prehistoric era.
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."
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.
As much as 45% of adults within Earth have used birth control medicine at least once in their life prior to the survey, and birth control contributes to sex that does not create offsprings.
Africa, a relatively less developed continent, have fewer rates about birth control, however, abortion compensates for unintended pregnancy, meaning the intercourse used to trigger this pregnancy is not meant to be used as a part of the procreation process.
About 50% of pregnancies in the US are triggered with sexual intercourse that does not bear intentions to deliberate procreation.
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 global rate is 45%.
Once per 6-7 days. Now what are the average children counts of an average adult couple?
The global average fertility rate is just below 2.5 children per woman today.
That would mean, at least 51 acts of intercourse per year does not contribute to sex. I know there might be failed attempts to bring a baby into a woman's inside, but you can't say that this is as many as over 100 attempts for 2 years consider if so, the global fertility rate would be much higher.
Evidence is presented, and I conclude:
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 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?