Sexual Utopianism vs. Biology

Proponents of same-sex marriage argue that male-male and female-female couples should have the same right to marry as male-female couples, but they ignore the biological nature of sex and the reason why there are two sexes.

We know from the study of human anatomy and physiology that male and female sex organs are designed to fit together for sexual intercourse. Male organs create genetic material (gametes) and transfer it to a female partner during intercourse. Female organs create comparable genetic material and, following intercourse, combine it with a male partner's genetic material to conceive a child and support its growth until it is born.

Sex hormones in both sexes create the desire to engage in sexual intercourse.

It is obvious from the preceding facts that pregnancy is the natural consequence of intercourse, but it may be less obvious that pregnancy is also the natural purpose of intercourse.

All members of any society are the result of pregnancy, and all (natural) pregnancy is the result of sexual intercourse between a male and a female. Therefore, all members of a society are the result of such intercourse. But if pregnancy is avoided totally, a society will have no new members and it will eventually die out and disappear. Therefore a society that habitually engages in intercourse without pregnancy cannot exist for long. In the long term, intercourse without pregnancy is impossible since there will be no one left to engage in intercourse. Therefore, the purpose of intercourse is pregnancy.

The argument made in favor of same-sex marriage, to the effect that male-male and female-female couples should have the same right to marry as male-female couples, is utopian because only a society of male-female couples can reproduce itself and survive.

In recent decades a same-sex counterculture has been created in opposition to the 'oppressive' male-female' culture. The builders of such a counterculture are social thinkers who have no idea why there are two sexes and why only a male-female society is possible.

A similar counterculture existed during the last century. The Shakers were a religious community that did not allow its members to engage in sexual intercourse. Consequently, this community did not reproduce itself and it was necessarily short-lived. It recruited new members from society at large, and it is said to have had a total of as many as 200,000 members, but never more than 6,000 at one time. Only four members remained near the end of the century. For the same biological reason the same fate must await the current same-sex counterculture.

Same-sex marriage, then, is a social institution of a society that cannot exist.

Eugene Paul