Acharya Prashant explains that human beings give excessive importance to sex because they use it as a proxy for various unmet desires and a lack of fulfillment in other areas of life. Unlike animals, who have fewer desires and do not need to cover up for failures, humans often seek success in the physical domain to maintain self-esteem when they feel like failures in their professional or personal lives. This lustfulness is a result of a colossal inner hunger that remains unprovided for, leading individuals to seek a sense of victory through physical penetration and conquest.