Why is sex considered the most important thing in a relationship?

Why is sex considered the most important thing in a relationship?
I'm having lots of discussions with some users.
I agree it's important, but for me it's not the most important thing in a relationship.
What do you think?
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Most Helpful Guys

  • One who says SEX is the most important thing in relation is keeping the relationship on the basis of having sex only. Sex is just a fun private part of our relations and its love, care, affection, honesty, sacrifices, helping and other values that makes the real relationship. These are the relationships which give us life long happiness and support when it is dark. They are the ones who shares their lives with us.

    It can never be understand by someone whose whole relation is based on SEX. I always wonder - do they see their mothers, sisters, cousins as sex objects. If not then how come they get the conclusion that all that matter is spreading legs and banging and riding and cumming.

    They are just FUCKTARDS, and their worth is just under their pants.

    • I completely agree with you, and that's why I'm worried. I'm seeing what you describe in a lot of people, and my girlfriend among them.

    • If that's true buddy then please don't take it otherwise, but it is just your dick she is interested in. I want her to love me as a whole and not as an asshole. If someone relies on sex in a relationship, that is just a sex-partnership and nothing else.

    • That's one of the things that I'm thinking on. She's very supportive and understands me on almost everything, but sometimes she seems to only have sex on her mind.

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  • For me it is.
    It's the best physical and emotional way to connect.

Most Helpful Girls

  • It is important to a certain extend if yo want to be intimate with the person you care for.

    I believe that other things are just as important if not more and that bring just as many satisfactions to both even if they are not physical.

    You don't need sex to be in a harmonious relation. You can show just as much love to someone without having sexual relations.

    Sex seems to be a little overrated if you look at how much importance some people here on GAG place on that subject. It seems that their entire lives revolve around sex and not so much around other things that can bind 2 people just as much as physical intercourse.

    • I don't understand why all the thumbs down and it's coming from the guys. You made good points. Trust, loyalty, communication to me are some of the most important things. Even though sex is pleasurable and enjoyable we have to remember there are people who want a relationship but don't desire sex like asexuals, persons who have insecurities about their body and are scared to be naked, persons with Sexual performance anxiety. Some people even prefer to masturbate.

    • @justsimpleguy Of course that physical togetherness and intimacy is important too and if someone is asexual and satisfied with only hugs and other ways of showing affection, this person should not be frowned upon by those that don't share his/her POV. For it to work, both must be consensual and realize that their path is not any worse than those who place sex as the most important aspect of their relation.

    • @justsimpleguy You'd be surprised how many people actually believe sex is all there is to a relationship. I've had an user actually PMing me to explain me how sex should be first sex and me thinking differently makes me an horrible boyfriend.

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  • i suppose that's most people's way of bonding

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  • It is to me.

    Reasons:
    1) I can have friends who are close but non sexual.

    2) but in a relationship, especially a marriage, if the ONLY sex partner is celibate, then there is no alternate means for the other to get sex.

    But everything else in a relationship can also he satisfied with other friends with no legal implications.

  • Then what IS the most important thing. IMHO sex is the engine that drives intimate relationships.

    • For me it's the trust and emotional bond. If sex it's first place, for me it's lust, and not love.

  • Sex is the biggest thing which differentiates a regular friendship from a romantic one. It explodes bonding hormones through the roof, compared to other interrelationship activities. Not to mention being pretty much the most exciting, most pleasurable experience humans can have, naturally.

    To me, sex is the single most important thing in a relationship. And, as psychological studies have shown, it's also the thing which provides the most happiness to people within a relationship.

    In a survey of 16,000 American adults, Swedish behavioral economists found that quadrupling sexual frequency from once a month to once a week boosted happiness as much as having an extra $50,000 in the bank.

    Princeton behavioral economists asked 1,000 women which life activities made them feel happiest. They ranked sex Number One.

    University of Texas psychologists asked 442 men and women why they have sex. The top reason: “Pleasure.”

  • It's not tge most importsnt thing, but it brings a couple together and set it apart from mere friendship.

  • Sex is programmed into us just as lust is part of our DNA. Without a strong sexual attraction, there are no bambinos and the species does not survive.

  • My love language is physical touch. Sex is such an important way for me to communicate my love to my partner and him to me. It's also really enjoyable and fun.

  • I dont think it’s tbe most important thing.

  • It's usually what distinguishes a relationship from a friendship (although that distinction gets blurred when you're dealing with friends with benefits).

    • Now here I was ready to write this exact reply and you beat me to it.

  • Its important but not hugely important. I don't see my OH much only on the weekend and only for a few hours. If sex was the only focus that would make feel like crap.

  • Because is the one thing that connects you both

    • you can also get connected without sex, no?

  • As a whole i think our society is oversexed I mean look at the questions on G@G so many questions are tied to how much sex is enough/too much. Not about the quality spent with your partner.

    I don't know if i'm confusing you with another G@Ger but didn't you say your girlfriend had a issue in her past?
    Not saying it was abuse i don't think that was it. But a lot of times victims of sexual abuse for example, sex becomes an expression of power an not intimacy.

    • Yes, she has had problems in the past. I admit I too thought she's this strongcoming about sex a bit because of that.

  • It's the main thing that gives offspring. Also it's imortant for bonding with the partner.

  • It's not. It's one important thing not the most important.

  • Most important, nope.

    But these days it has become important, coz many people can't control sexual desires. They want to. taste again and again.

  • To me, sex is not important. Love and compatibility is. I wouldn’t be with a man who’m wants sex all the time.

    • What matters is the match. Horndogs need Thots like Thots need Horndogs. When the two match up, it's happy. Likewise, cooler-blooded people need other cooler-blooded people.

  • For me it is important but more important is our connection we have with each other. I can trust him fully and he support me in every way

  • It depends on the circumstances of sex leaving the relationship.

  • Life insurance is the most important part

  • Because people only care about their primitive monkey urges. Uncivilized degenerates. Sex is for wild animals.

  • To me it’s not, trust is

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