Maslow's hierarchy of needs indicates that sex is just as fundamental a need as food, water, and breathing! So why should anyone be deprived of it?

Sex is as fundamental a basic need as food, water, breathing, and sleep!
Sex is as fundamental a basic need as food, water, breathing, and sleep!
The bottom indicates our most basic of needs. Isn't it to no surprise that incels do terrible atrocities against society because of this deprivation? Sexual intimacy is part of it as well!

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  • People can live without a sex partner. If you would rather not and can't attract one you can rent one.

  • Because you don't deserve it. Food housing don't come for free, you have to work hard to earn it. Same with sex.

    • Makes sense.

  • I'm not a psychologist but to my understanding the lowest level of the pyramid refers to something like 'desires based on physiological mechanisms'. That means that the desire for sex turns up in your brain like the desire for sleep or food. It does not mean (becaus it would not be true) that you die without sex (or mastrubation).

  • Because you can't force other people to have sex with people they don't want to have sex with.

    In my opinion the solution would be genetic engineering so that you could prevent anyone from being born with undesirable traits and ensure that everyone has a chance at being physically attractive/sexually viable.

    • Right on.

  • I can explain this to you if you like. I studied this in my psychology class

    • Sure thing!

    • Ok that pic is not written the right way but 1st we all need a sense of asptantce to fit in and belong. This is why kids that are not at home go in gangs and if they do not they kill themselves. Understand if so I will move to number 2.

    • One more thing is promoting of Groth to better your self. To gain self-esteem and self-confidence

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  • Tough independent women don’t need men! Even though a need is essential and very important to live a healthy and satisfied life they disagree. Maslow’s basic life needs are summarized as self-actualization, esteem, belongingness-and-love needs, safety needs, physiological needs (food, water, air, sex…) from least important to most. So according to Maslow, love is a need also per your triangle. The physiological need of sex relates to the species reproducing and not necessarily to an individual. Want is a desire or a wish for something. So, all these tough independent women only want. Of course, we know, that is the propaganda of the left and the infrastructure dependence makes all this left malarkey appear to be feasible on the surface.

  • No it isn't. We need the rest to survive. Sex is only essential because of procreation, not because the pleasure derived from it is essential to our lives. It isn't.

  • because the purpose of sex to create a baby. People are ready for sex not a baby

  • Sex is a want , not a need, it's a nice bonus but thankfully you don't need it given the shit attached to it. Incels do what they do because they are weak minded entitled scum.

  • Yup. And you need to work for it. And from the very beginning human are working hard to get these 4 things.

    • Utterly agree. Makes sense.

    • Thanks!

  • Man I would love to get a hold of some of these incels hell put me in a room with about 5 of them so they'll maybe feel brave enough to say some stupid shit. I mean how can a man blame women for the fact that he can't get laid. What a joke you can't get laid because you're hiding behind a computer for reals if you can't get a phone number from 1 out of 10 chicks then hit up 100 if that doesn't work then hit up 1000 and realize that your success is yours the same as your failures are yours and nobody else's

    • I agree.

  • The number of incels who go ER is so tiny that it cannot be represented as a statistic.
    Chad, Stacey and Feminists are at more risk from lightning.

  • You sound like an incel, why don't you relax and find a nice girl to chat to?

    • If it was THAT easy then I wouldn't be an incel. How is it MY FAULT that I'm unattractive and short? Care to explain? It's not like I want a model, but just a moderately attractive girl... Is that really so much to ask for? Anyway, science supports the idea of the fundamental importance of sex.

    • You're being negative, think about your assets and go from there. Writing in caps loocks isn't going to change anything. You seem a bit up tight with everything. Try to relax, girls don't like stressy people

  • Because it's a give and take world. And if you want to get you have to give. Some people don't really want to give, so they don't get. Some people want to give, but what they have ro give isn't in high demand. So simply put some people have to give twice as much just to get anything. Is it fair? No, welcome to life. Lol

  • i think "sex" is wrong. people need physical closeness and intimacy. not strictly just "sex" but everything that comes with it. companionship, friendship, trust, company... all that.

    it's really not a question of deprivation. should you be forced to have sex with someone? no? well since you should have the choice who you are intimate with, that means some people won't find a mate. that's just nature. everyone generally has a right to be loved but nobody is entiteled to love from a specific person.

  • See this is where maslows pyramid is bull.

    you won't survive 5 minutes without oxygen (breathing)
    you won't survive months without food
    you won't survive weeks without drinking liquid like water
    you won't survive maybe a month without sleep (although you'll probably collapse into sleep anyway)
    i don't know what homeostatis is.
    not excreting or urinating poses fatal dangers to your body

    but you won't die without sex. Ask any 40 year old virgin or the monks or the nuns. They're not dead. you'll just be a very grumpy being and you wouldn't live as healthy or happy or as long as those, who have sex like almost every day.

    sex belongs right after the security needs.

    • Sex is required as a means of reproduction and survival. You're not understanding its meaning and purpose. The hierarchy applies to humanity in general, and not to specific individuals.

    • Then let's agree to disagree

  • Well... no, this isn't a correct interpretation of Maslow's hierarchy, if I'm remembering correctly. And if it is, then Maslow was an idiot.

    • How come you don't agree with Maslow may I ask?

    • I do agree with Maslow, except that sexual desire isn't a need in the strictly physiological sense-- it is not the same as NEEDING food, shelter, water, and breathing. We "need" it from a physiological sense, sure, and it's extremely emotionally important, but it is a *need really, as in because we so desperately and strongly desire it, particularly if we're male, but it's not a NEED. So essentially it should be in its own little tier all by itself on the pyramid in my opinion, directly above physiological needs but directly below safety needs.

    • We don't die if it doesn't happen. We do die if those other physiological needs don't happen.

  • Incels want the act and the orgasm but don’t feel like they really need to contribute much other than some friction and their genitals.

  • If you look up what Maslow himself has said, the "sex" aspect of the fundamental physiological needs is not necessarily the "act of having sex" but rather acknowledging your sexuaity and having ways to express it. That's why human creativity has always heavily involved sex and sexual depictions. Masturbating, being sexually aroused, looking at someone you find sexually attractive, they would all fall into this category. So no, "having sex" is not a fundamental need, having some kind of outlet for your sexuality is. What WOULD be detrimental is someone growing up in a household where they are forced to supress every aspect of their sexuality as it's viewed as "shameful" or something that must be hidden.
    The word "need" in this context also doesn't have the same meaning or purpose as it usually does. What the hierarchy of needs illustrates is what you need to have fulfilled before you can move on to th next row. You need to breathe, sleep and drink before you can take care of your employment or resources.

  • Sexual intimacy is only ONE of the three items listed on the third level. If you don't have sex in your life, tough luck; you have to learn to get by on the other two. Yes, you may be lacking in one area, but you're not going to die. Sex is not a base-level need.

    • Sex is required as a means of reproduction and survival. You're not understanding its meaning and purpose. The hierarchy applies to humanity in general, and not to specific individuals.

    • Dude, that's completely inaccurate. First, it applies to individuals. Second, you do NOT need to have sex to survive! You only need food, water, and shelter. That's it.

    • Where does it say that it's for individuals? The human species needs sex to survive.

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