If you are having sex with a partner while using any forms of birth control to prevent pregnancy, you are basically masterbating with the other persons body

The masterbating thing is more of a metaphor

I’m not shaming anyone. No judgment at all. Might be an unpopular opinion. I would say almost everyone is doing this, even people in ltrs/marriages. And people have been doing this for a while.

Technically, and scientifically speaking, the primary purpose for sex is procreation. And while yes, humans and lots of other animals will have sex for fun/pleasure/comfort/whatever reason, you’re technically just using that persons body to get yourself off.

Especially with modern contraceptives like the pill (you could even extend this to abortion). And especially in regards to casual sex or sex outside of marriage.

If you don’t want to get pregnant or get someone pregnant, you can have sex anyway.

But isn’t that just masturbation with extra steps. Again, no judgment here. I understand why people prefer sex to masturbation. But teccchnically I think it’s the same thing. I think this is why relationship satisfaction is going down because if you expand on this topic and connect it to psychology or sociology, i think it’s a sign that people are ok with devaluing each other/people.

This might sound traditional, but I think sex really did have more “meaning” back in the day. I don’t know if I’d go as far to say that people loved each other more, but I do think that sex and love or mmm esteem maybe had a stronger link