Your partner looks into your eyes, does something to your consciousness. How long lasting is the sexual pleasure? What does it leave you with? It leaves you with the need to get a shower and it leaves you with a stained bedsheet. Whereas, if you spend a day with the right person, a day, and a night, then you are left with something that might last your lifetime.
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Questioner: I was going to play devil’s advocate and say that, well, I have got to eat to satisfy my body. So, why can’t I use contraception and have sex with a woman and not procreate? But as I think about this now, it sounds like I do need food otherwise the body will die. But if I don’t have sex, it’s not that my body will die.
Acharya Prashant: Yeah, of course. No, this is such a bad analogy that people so often give. They say, “Sex is like the food. Both are physical needs.” No sir, please! Sex is not like food. No, no, no. Even in food there is a choice involved, obviously. But the dimension of sex is different.
What your choice of sexual partner can do to you, your choice of food material can never do to you, right? Though I speak a lot about dietary choices as well, especially, I speak on diet that involves flesh consumption. But still, I mean, your choice of person, you would be spending a lot of time with, seriously a lot of time. Sometimes twenty-four hours a day. Twenty-four hours a day, twenty years of your life, forty, sixty years of your life is a big part of your life. So, it’s a big choice and it’s a flawed comparison that just as we want food, we also want sex.
