Quote Originally Posted by Sophie86 View Post
My wife and I managed to have sex for 9 years without conceiving a child, and could have continued that indefinitely. Having children wasn't a side effect of some other motivation. It was a conscious decision based on the fact that we both wanted a child, and felt we had reached a point in our lives where we could raise one well. When we decided to have a second child five years later that was also a decision based on what we wanted in our lives.
Having offspring for gratifying feelings is socially induced, and this is also somewhat of a new phenomenon in the history of our species. It's only existed for much less than 0.1% of our time on the planet. Besides, if you didn't have a sex drive, you wouldn't be having children, either. The whole romantic connection is hormonally induced to keep the parents together long enough for the child to be able to function more independently so as to have a better chance to survive.