>>225359It wasn’t necessarily about the physical pleasure of sex and sexual attraction (because it can have the exact opposite consequences) that I had in mind with that sentence, but the latent vs manifest functions of the sex drive.
For example, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s love story (and the way both characters subjectively experience it) has nothing to do with reproduction and having kids, and them having sex has a completely different subjective meaning to them (manifest functions).
But then, why are a young man and a teenage virgin succubus so attracted to each other to begin with? And why does sex have so much significance in that? It’s for underlying biological causes going back billions of years directed at evolution through natural selection (latent functions) that are not immediately transparent to individual human consciousness and that humanity has only started to discover very late into its existence.
So yes, I’m still going on about this perspective, but I would say “it feels good” is kinda unfair as an interpretation since it also causes one to find love music, stories, art, etc., beautiful and noble and sublime. But that’s also part of evolution’s trick to get you to reproduce. (Obivously there are loopholes.)
What do you have in mind with partial? What do you think my perspective is missing?