As always, G.K. Chesterton is instructive:
Sex is an instinct that produces an institution; and it is positive and
not negative, noble and not base, creative and not destructive, because
it produces this institution. That institution is the family; a small
state or commonwealth which has hundreds of aspects, when it is once
started, that are not sexual at all. It includes worship, justice,
festivity, decoration, instruction, comradeship, repose. Sex is the gate
of that house; and romantic and imaginative people naturally like
looking through a gateway. But the house is very much larger than the
gate. There are indeed a certain number of people who like to hang about
the gate and never get any further.
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