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Alan Watts Lectures

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The Sexual Instinct Is Not Necessary

The sexual drive is a very necessary thing and some outlet has to be provided for it. But in speaking of an instinct like sex or hunger as an urge that we've set it away from ourselves, he says. We say for example in teaching children about the birds, the bees and flowers that nature or God has given us the sexual instinct. In order to make the reproduction of the species attractive only assumption that if it wasn't attractive we wouldn't do it.

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