Marian wrote:
If you stop eating you die, yes, but you don't die if you stop having sex, so that comparison doesn't hold ground IMO. Mind, I've got nothing against sex, but it just isn't a vital need for me.
Putting it more strongly, sex is one of those things that's part of our primal nature, for keeping the species as a whole going. So's violence, greed, and defecating where you stand. If I can get through the day without beating up someone (or something), taking what they've got because I want it, and leaving a trail of crap behind me, I'm being unnatural. Doesn't make it a bad thing.
Abstinence can be as bad as indulgence, if taken to extremes. Apply common sense to your own situation.
steve