Point was was that we can't escape nature, human pair bonding is based on a fundamental desire to reproduce, so the strongest indication of trust and intimacy is the willingness to at least perform the act of procreation. As it is an indication that the female sees the male as a sexual partner. Even if our higher reasoning seeks to avoid having children through contraception, the fact that a woman is willing to have sex with a man at least shows that she approves of him as a mate.
Saying "I'm not going to have sex with you" is the same as saying you don't approve of him as a mate, a "friend" would probably be a more accurate definition of your relationship. You want to spend time with them and do things together, but you don't want to pursue the relationship further.
Lastly, how does one have a "sexual encounter" without sex? It's just an "encounter" at that point isn't it?
So, because I don't want to be denied sex I'm uncultured? Am I understanding that correctly? Wanting to have sex with the woman I love makes me boorish and incapable of grasping the nature of one as cultured as yourself?
To your first response: I disagree that we can't escape nature. We already did so on a huge scale, human civilization itself is in its essence a distancing from nature, since we began caring for the ill and elderly, use technology and medicine, we already excised ourselves out of the rules of natural selection.
I totally disagree that human pair bonding is based on a desire to reproduce. We have a desire to have sex, not to reproduce - and it does not even need to be pair-bonding, it can be a group-bonding too. Biologically even, reproduction is hidden from the desire to have sex, sure nature "invented" sex as a way to basically trick us into reproducing, but we are no longer mere animals, and even in case of animals sexual desire can have non-reproductive forms.
The desire to reproduce in humans is entirely a matter of choice, of cultural expectation, and not an inherent part of sexual desire. Since we can use a wide assortment of defenses against pregnancy to occur, not even vanilla heterosexual copulation needs to result in pregnancy - plenty of couples decide to stay child-free yet enjoy having sex, regardless. This already means that we outsmarted nature's smarts in its aim to make us a slave to the DNA.
An important point also: homosexuals also have pair bonding and they enjoy sex and want to have sex, their case is a prime example how sex is not inherently about reproduction. Similarly, different fetishes we have are also not about reproduction. Unless you want to kink-shame us, or unless you are a homophobe, you would cease this ridiculous claim that sex is primarily about reproduction it is not. Conversely, since artificial insemination exists, sex is not even needed for reproduction. We can entirely circumvent the stupid program of evolution. Since we have a lot of sexual preferences, a woman or a man "having sex" with the other or the same sex can mean a lot of different things for different people, it does in no way represent any desire to reproduce.
"Lastly, how does one have a "sexual encounter" without sex? It's just an "encounter" at that point isn't it?"
Nope, since oral sex can be part of it, and oral sex is having a form of sex, is more than just an encounter. I would also say that the encounter would be entirely sexual without even oral sex, for erotic satisfaction can happen without any sexual contact whatsoever. You can "get off" on purely femdom stuff, without even touching yourself/or by touching yourself. Sexuality is something varied beyond your wildest imagination. It definitely does not mean merely "fucking".
The last quote, where you worry that I find you being uncultured...that's ridiculous, you completely misunderstood my point. There I simply tried to describe how two sexual experiences (femdom vs vanilla) feel to me, it was an attempt to convey to you the message that while YOU can't find intimacy in femdom, for me there is incomparably more intimacy in it than in vanilla sex. Its a difference of sexuality and sexual preferences. In fact, casual vanilla sex for me is way less intimate than a femdom experience.
I really think, we should leave it at that. Find your own sexuality, be who you are, find what you enjoy. You don't need to force your preference on us. I don't go on vanilla threads and bitch about the lack of femdom, nor do I go to maledom threads to bitch about the same. All I ask of you is do the same, respect our differences, realize that femdom is not for you, and lets all move on, this thread was not about debating sexuality in the first place.