It's impossible to have an intelligent conversation when your whole reasoning is "It's the way of the beast" and "unless you're dead, those thoughts will always cross your mind."
The reason why I called you a pedo is because by saying that such thoughts will always cross your mind, you're implying that you aren't in control of your thoughts which means you're also having such thoughts to underage kids. If you aren't a pedo, then obviously you can turn off such thoughts. Thus, your whole opinion collapsed.
For something that is more neutral, it's a fact that asexual people exist. They (not interested in sex) are on one end while you (without being able to turn off such thoughts) are on the other end. It's fairly obvious and non-controversial that there are people in between the two.
Seriously, I read these posts and you calling him a pedo due to his comments just completely devalued your opinion for me.
There is literally NO connection between saying there will always be thoughts about what could be sexually, even with long-time friends of the opposite gender, and having sexual thoughts about children. None.
That you think it's okay to insult him like that so casually, just because you don't like his opinion, is, frankly speaking, disgusting.
And fyi, no, his argumentation wouldn't actually relate to children in any way, because instinctually we are programmed to want to protect and care for children, that's why we think kids, kittens and puppies look cute, a sexually normal heterosexual person wouldn't see children sexually even on an instinctual level, because they are not yet ready for procreation.
When he says "way of the beast" what does he mean? That we will assault every attractive women we see? No, of course not.
But we are instinctual creatures, in fact there is a school of thought that most if not all our decisions are really based on instinct and all our logic and reasoning, all our morals, that it's all just there to rationalize what we already instinctually want to do.
Does that mean we will always act on those impulses, does that mean we will look at our female bestie and constantly think about boning her? OF COURSE NOT!
But like Dark Silence wrote, there will inadvertently come a moment where you look at a friend as a potential sexual partner, it might just be an instant and then gone, and it will happen. And yes, most people probably also had these moments with attractive family members once or twice. Again, that doesn't mean you are into incest or want to simply fuck everything around, this stuff is sort of a biological reaction to what we evolutionary see as a promising partner to create offspring with, biology doesn't take friendship or family relations into account, it is a reaction to purely physical things.
You never had a moment with a female friend when she had a nice cleavage going and for a fleeting second you wondered how her breasts would look naked, that they are probably great? If your answer is no, then yes, you are probably either dishonest or, as you pointed out, asexual.
And from a biological pov asexuality is an abnormality, it goes directly contrary to what we are supposed to be on a purely physical level. That doesn't mean I have a problem with asexual people, they just are what they are, but biologically they are an outlier and not normal.
