"Well I want sex but I don't want the baby. The baby is less important than my own personal pleasure. Some people have sex only for the pleasure and that's all that matters!"
Here's a good response (ironically found on tumblr of all places):
I have a blue button that creates kittens. You want a kitten, so you press the button. You notice many others are pressing the button and creating kittens. But then you also notice the other people who press the blue button, creating a kitten, and then they drown the kitten in a bucket of water. And they do this over and over and over. Create kitten, drown kitten. You ask why they would drown the kittens. "We don't want kittens," they say. And you wonder why on earth someone would press the kitten-creating button over and over if they didn't want a kitten.
"Maybe we just like the color blue," they respond. "Maybe we just like pressing the buttons."
"But every time you press the button, a kitten dies," you plead. "What if you didn't press the button at all? What if you pressed the button and let the kittens live?"
"We want to press the button, and we want to kill the kittens."
That's the literal definition of evil. "We want pleasure at the expense of killing people. We get pleasure from killing people."
Have you really encountered baby killers who are that forthright? It seems like they usually go to extreme excuses like rape, incest, or inelastic uteri.
I actually have. They think sex is ONLY for pleasure and getting pregnant is some kind of anomaly and not the main reason why sex (procreation) exists.
ok fair enough
People will risk getting their faces bashed in by dozens of rocks hurtled at them by a crowd of contemptuous strangers because the drive to have sex is so powerful. Two young people who fall madly in love…(and by young, I mean, like, 16 and 17, or even 15 and 16) aren’t always well enough equipped with adult functions to override their hormone drenched, intensely biological urges. It’s just so. I mean…think about it. Young people will still fuck even if it means they’ll be executed if they’re caught. Not all of them, obviously, but it’s a strong enough urge that death isn’t a fail safe deterrent. We can accept that pleasure isn’t the only reason for sex, but a pair bonding drive as well. Husbands and wives who routinely have sex display more love, tenderness and respect for each other than dead bedroom couples.
This is why self-control and abstinence should be taught to kids first, instead of teaching them how to have sex "the safest." FYI, there is no "safe sex" when sex is literally always meant for reproduction. Unless the man and woman are way past their prime and child-bearing/rearing years then pregnancy should be considered as a 100% likelihood.