But there’s a more important reason that it matters that sex is like curiosity and not like hunger: If someone steals a loaf of bread because they’re starving, on some level we can have sympathy and mercy; even when stealing is wrong, we acknowledge that people do what they have to do to survive. But if someone steals a loaf of bread simply because they’re curious what someone else’s bread tastes like… do we have the same sympathy, the same mercy? Because sex is not a drive, it is not a biological “need,” and no one is entitled to it, and no one ever has permission to steal it from anyone,
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