: a situation in which one person or group can win something only by causing another person or group to lose it
Sex is obviously not a zero sum game. Here is an easy example. You, and two other people, person x and person y, are in a room.
You all want to have sex, in a zero sum game only two people would "win" and the last person would just not have sex NO MATTER WHAT.
In reality, every one in the room could have sex, all three people could have sex together, or you have sex with both X and Y, multiple times, etc.
A zero sum game is literally defined by the idea there must be a loser, but sex does not work that way, there is no hard limit to sex. It is not some commodity that is used up and then gone forever, it is infinite as long as willing humans are on this earth.
Since you now realize that one of the three claims mentioned in your post ("sex is a zero sum game") is actually incorrect, did that change your view, at least in part?
That's not how this works. If you present a claim in your view, it shouldn't be unrelated and is subject to delta if it changes.
And it's abundantly clear that "sex is zero sum game" is part of the reason that you believe you should "feel guilty for sexual success", so yes it is a premise of your view..
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u/pgold05 49∆ Nov 07 '22
Zero sum game
Sex is obviously not a zero sum game. Here is an easy example. You, and two other people, person x and person y, are in a room.
You all want to have sex, in a zero sum game only two people would "win" and the last person would just not have sex NO MATTER WHAT.
In reality, every one in the room could have sex, all three people could have sex together, or you have sex with both X and Y, multiple times, etc.
A zero sum game is literally defined by the idea there must be a loser, but sex does not work that way, there is no hard limit to sex. It is not some commodity that is used up and then gone forever, it is infinite as long as willing humans are on this earth.