# 4.6 About sex  

By [Jordi Kidsune](https://paragraph.com/@web3titans) · 2022-10-24

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**Key points**: _Sex = good for you. Humans = not monogamous. When not in a relationship, I just hire fashion models to have sex with in order to save time on dating and focus on other priorities. Great sex = biochemistry._

I think of sex as something similar to exercise, meditation, or food. Another physiological need to be addressed in a time-efficient way; another tool to enhance health (talking about safe sex obviously) and intelligence. There are many reasons why sex is useful for intelligence:

*   If we do not get it, we spend a lot of time thinking about it. Pursuing it, watching porn etc. Useless distractions.
    
*   Society is sexualized and ties the male ego to having sex. Doing so makes the ego content and easier to control.
    
*   Sex leads to favorable hormone profile changes that enhance mood, and reduce stress \[[1](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15961213?ref=hackernoon.com)\] and even help sleep \[[1](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763412000565?ref=hackernoon.com)\]. Funnily enough I even noticed a very clear correlation between sex and my own deep sleep levels, and anything that improves deep sleep is very valuable.
    
*   There is evidence that sex boosts our neurogenesis and neuroplasticity. \[[1](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011597&ref=hackernoon.com)\]
    

Getting great sex takes too much time and energy:

*   Dating takes a lot of time. Much of that time is wasted. On people who are not a good fit. On idiotic things like swiping on Tinder or going to clubs (screws with sleep). Casual dating = trading our time and energy for sex and reassuring our ego that we are desirable.
    
*   Monogamous long-term relationships can be great if we are together with someone who is a true friend and shares our values — I was in a MLTR that truly made my life better and it might happen again. But MLTRs are a challenging solution for sexual desires. Human biology is not monogamous. I quote: “_Overall, of the 1,231 cultures in the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, 84.6 percent are classified as polygynous \[one man many women\], 15.1 percent as monogamous, and 0.3 percent as polyandrous \[one woman many men\]._” \[[1](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/darwin-eternity/201108/are-people-naturally-polygamous-0?ref=hackernoon.com)\].
    
*   Just straight up paying for sex in one-time cash meetings off the Internet is frankly emotionally-unpleasant.
    
*   Masturbation doesn’t deliver the same benefits for some reason. It seems we do trick our brains, but not fully.
    

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*Originally published on [Jordi Kidsune](https://paragraph.com/@web3titans/4-6-about-sex)*