Is it strange for a young person in his or her 20s to have little to no interest in sex because they believe that sex is the kind of thing that anyone can do and that there is a higher power than sex?

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Here are several answers from WikiAnswers Contributors: It may be strange for people who think with their genitals and not their about from desire, greed and lust. A person, who cannot find contentment, cannot find peace. A person, who cannot find peace, cannot find fulfillment. Prosperity, Power and Popularity are not the solutions to human suffering, because you may have them all and still feel incomplete. There are many prosperous, powerful and popular individuals who need mind altering drugs and other freaky (sexual) activities to keep them excited. Your particular set of morals/values, are those that you inherited from genetic sources and those that you learnt from the environment within which you were raise. Your expectations in life usually depend on your belief systems. In order to find something, you must know exactly what it is that you are looking for. You must know how to recognize it when you find it, then you have to know how and where to search for it. If you have found that special something in a higher power then you should do whatever makes you happy as long as it does not encroach upon the rights of another. My advise to you is be unique, be contented, be happy and be proud. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Sexual intercourse is of course an important part of modern identity but it is not uncommon to be disinterested. As a psychologist, I am aware that this is often the result of an unsteady childhood and leads to a backlog of childish feelings. The desire not to have sex is often one of the child and is the result of a mind which is still set in the mindset of a child acting through an adult body. It can therefore sometimes seem unnatural to others that you are disinterested in sex but we all blossom at different points in our lives. John Stuart Mill the philosopher believed as you do that there is a distinction between low pleasures of the flesh such as sex and high pleasures of the mind such as art and love. Therefore my advice is to accept the fact that there are some people who do not believe in sex as a pleasureable device but instead believe that it is a carnal practice native to all animals. I can only say that you are in a minority but even a minority requires a mass feeling and so there are those out there like you.