This post will be foundational to all other content that I create. I cannot understate its importance and significance. When I contemplate anything—at least anything relevant to human existence and the structures and hierarchies that we erect to live in accordance with—I seek to go as far “upstream” as possible; I want the widest lens. Many times, issues that arise in a society (let’s say equality or human rights, for example) are generally approached as if the issue exists in a bubble. Often, when an issue is viewed in a bubble, certain perspectives become obvious and certain actions might be suggested and/or taken. However, when we pull our view back further, more details show up that influence the perspectives that we previously held when contemplating the issue in a bubble, and perhaps different actions or solutions show up. This may seem like a commonsense observation; however, I rarely see people employ this common sense when arguing their position on an issue. I rarely come across someone who endeavors to investigate issues as deeply as possible before taking a stand on their position. Often, positions are emotional and not logical, which makes sense: we selfishly want a system that works best for our “group” and don’t particularly care how it works out for anyone else (more on that in its own post).

As far as I have been able to conclude, the furthest upstream I can go—the furthest back I can pull my view—is observing the nature of humans as biological life forms. While I daily contemplate spirituality, God, the possibility of the existence of souls, aliens, spiritual growth and preparation (for an afterlife) in a human’s brief time on earth, the nature of consciousness, and other difficult and unanswerable questions, none of that a) is proven or conclusive, and b) changes the “fact” that we as humans are biological life forms that adhere to some very specific rules governing biological life on this planet.

As biological life forms, the purpose of existence can be distilled down to two words: Survival and Replication. Biological life doesn’t care about God. Biological life doesn’t care about spirituality. Biological life doesn’t care about consciousness, multiple dimensions, aliens, the quantum field, or anything else. Biological life is concerned with preservation and procreation. The end. Full stop. This is a scientific fact, from the simplest of life forms to the most complex. If we can’t agree on this fact, then we have nowhere else to go because as far as I can tell, there is no further upstream to go, there is no wider lens through which to look. The only way I can see to thwart this truth is with some component of spirituality, which is all theory and no fact. When we look at life through this lens of survival and replication, preservation and procreation, only then can we fully appreciate the importance and significance of sex, as sex is the mechanism of replication/procreation.

Distilled down, WE HAVE ONE JOB!!! We have one program, and that program is to make more biological life forms. It is our Prime Directive. Even if we argue that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience, we are nonetheless having that physical experience.

Some of my posts and contemplations are going to enter into confronting subject matter. It is not because I support ideas that generally occur to most people as totally offensive (complete absence of human rights, for example). My personal beliefs and desires for humanity are separate from my contemplations, where I seek to remain as objective as possible in order to understand motive. As I contemplate confronting subject matter, I typically do so through the lens of “sex as the foundation of all existence”. This is important to keep in mind because it can be easy to react defensively because a position is challenged. Further, people sometimes wrongly assume that I’m taking a stance or position simply because I raise the issue for contemplation. My “stand” that I take for humanity is something in the realm of “a world of equal opportunity for all, where no one is indiscriminately or arbitrarily left out”. But (and it’s a BIG but), most people cannot grapple with true and complete equality. And sexual equality—for all the importance and significance that sex is—is typically never discussed and considered. As far as I can tell, “sex as the foundation of all existence” is the core of the onion and not just another layer, and at the core, things change. They become difficult. Or rather, they become difficult to accept. I think they become far easier to grok.

I believe all significant issues deserve scrutiny, and without viewing societal and hierarchal structures through the lens of “sex as the mechanism for procreation for biological life” as a fundamental fact, issues do not get the proper scrutiny. And the more controversial the issue, the more scrutiny it deserves, and the more sex needs to be front and center in the conversation.