Sex - Key to Knowledge (I)

Inarguably, almost everyone who has attained the age of puberty and beyond has something to say about sex, because we all know a thing or two about the pervasive act which has being with us since the days of Adam. Sex will not leave us anytime soon and anything short of its practice whether on legal, health or moral basis is bound to see the procreation of man come to an end and by extension, extinction of the human race and any living thing that procreates through mating.

For the records, I would like to state that, this piece has a religious underlining and my own conviction which must not necessarily corroborate anyone’s thought or otherwise. I want to be solely responsible for everything herein to avoid the seeing-is-believing bunch of die-hards who will ask me to show them empirical evidence. I am also grateful for the source literature which sparked up the interest to write this piece on sex, but if you ever decide to read beyond this piece, then my article is premised on the Bible in the book of Genesis Chapters 2:16 & 17 and 3:1-20 for your own perusal.

The first time I heard someone relating the famous tree of knowledge of good and evil to sex, I asked him to stop right there because the novice that I was, thought him a blasphemous goon to which I was not going to be a part of and this was in the mid 90’s when I was in Secondary School but some years on, my conviction about the sex theory has grown more than that guy who was probably just saying.

Simply put, the bible which is the embodiment of truth is and cannot be comprehensible to everyone thus the perplexity that comes with its comprehension through generations before us and the ones to follow. The bible in its simple state is as well the most complex of books that has been authored by man. No, men of God! And it explains why the boy retorted to me “were you expecting them to say, they had sex?” Intriguing!

Why is it hard for us to believe that Adam and Eve had sex anymore than we can believe that it was literally a tree named a ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil?  Has the tree become extinct? How come we don’t have any more of those species of trees anymore? 

Either we were told lies or the teachers didn’t know anymore than the students they professed to have been teaching and some of these discoveries which falls outside our syllabi and other accepted ways of doing things make me look back and ponder over our system. Either the conspiracy theory rages on or too many ignorant people are placed in authoritative positions by other ignorant people who misguides and misdirects us. No wonder, my visual representation of apple until recently has always been Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden clad in their loin cloths; Eve extending a bitten apple to Adam.

To the best of my knowledge, sex is the key to knowledge without which, one is considered as innocent. Sex is one of the yardsticks for measuring Knowledge that is why people are considered to have entered a different phase of life when they marry – the ideal time to have sex and it is also worthy to note that sex is primarily for procreation.

Most of us had our perceptions about life changed the first time we had sex. Everything became different and in most cases, we felt afraid, grown and arrived. Well, that is how we started discovering knowledge which mainly constitutes good and evil and admittedly, we also discovered pain, sorrow and sickness.

Hitherto the eating of the fruit of the mythical tree of knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve were espoused to be good; the former chasing after animals and naming them and the latter strolling in other parts of the Garden until she met ‘the serpent’, where they exercised their creative functions independently of God’s directive and there and then, they knew instantly that, they were naked and almost aware of their very existence and the emphasis is on Knowledge.

Remember, they were admonished to stay away from that tree, yet they disobeyed God. They thought outside the box and became aware of stellar influences which they were previously unaware of. They have become all knowing soon after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Knowledge seekers already know that knowledge brings us pain and sorrow but also comes with inestimable blessings of emancipation from outside influence and guidance, so it came to pass that, Adam and Eve were cursed which was not necessarily a curse but an expression or a simple statement of the resultant effect of their creative function they exercised.

Is it a curse to tell your Son who is now of age to shoulder responsibilities upon assumption of manly status evidenced by his impregnation of a woman? They are just consequences of your action.

They had sex and even though it was disobedient to God, the generative force brought about childbirth which was followed by God’s curse which was merely the consequences of their thinking outside the box. They probably did not wait for God’s directive to eat of the tree or in plain terms, to have sex but was God going to ask them to eat it someday? Wouldn’t it have been illusive, well, until manifested?

Doesn’t our society punish us for not falling in line? Society chastises anyone who thinks outside the box until something different and sustainable is discovered or unearthed. They come as defiant and labeled as deviants for not heeding to the existing norms but again it is the only way new things are created.  

Just like God told Adam and Eve that the eating from the knowledge tree would result in their death (maybe spiritually) which did not come to pass, it is in same vein society spells to us all kinds of consequences that could befall us should we do something that does not fall within the box. Mostly, the daring ones who go beyond the threshold as we have come to know only discover a new form of beauty.

Had man remained a God-guided automation, he would not have known sickness, pain or death till this day; but would have lacked the brain consciousness and independence which resulted from the enlightenment by the serpent who opened his understanding and taught him to use his then dim vision to gain knowledge of his world which he was already destined to conquer.

You would recall that before man’s enlightenment, he had not known sickness, pain nor death but all resulted from the unwise use of the propagative faculty and its abuse for the gratification of the senses.

Sex is a generative force which if used ignorantly or for other purposes primarily becomes responsible for our pain, sorrow and sicknesses. Sex cannot be used as way of killing boredom neither should it be used as a means of pursuing pleasure. Sex (organs) as a function is designed solely for the perpetration of species and under no circumstances for the gratification of sensual desire.

As higher order primates, we naturally and primarily get most things done wrongly because of our emotions which results in our desires, other than how things should be, as evidenced in our altering of almost everything and now anal sex by gays.

Animals in their wild state are exempt from sickness and pain because their propagation is not influenced by emotions and desires but carried under the care and direction of the wise cosmic spirit at only those times of the year which are propitious to that process just like most women feel for sex before, during or after their menstrual periods. 

Nowadays, people practically arrange to have sex without being on heat or just have sex at will and it is this unwise use of the propagative faculty and its abuse for sensual gratification of the senses that has brought untold hardships on us individuals and the generation as a whole.

It was not unwise of our forefathers to marry their daughters and Sons off in their puberty when their reproductive organs became matured. The older folks knew that, their libidos will be naturally aroused from time to time and failure to satisfy it could just result in sickness, a form of pain, neglect or masochism over a period of time thus the ease and convenience of marrying them off to have sex as and when their heat mechanism is activated.