No they are not the same. They are polar opposites. I pursue the consumption of food because it relieves the pains of hunger not because I am driven instinctively to survive. The outcome is that I survive but it does not motivate my actions, the outcome is a consequential byproduct of my pursuit to the relief from the pains of hunger but it does not consciously drive my pursuit of food. I can however as a sentient being override my impulse and select my own desired outcome.
Do you imagine that the hunger pains to which you refer would exist at all if your body did not require sustenance to survive in the first place?
Given that fact, would you imagine that anything where the instinctual drive to "hunger" is concerned ultimately matters beyond the basic reality of the condition's outcome?
I'm sorry, but, regardless of how you try to twist things here, there is really no way around intrinsic biology. "Wants" do not simply materialize out of the cosmic aether unbeckoned. They are generally driven by instinct, which is, in turn, overwhelmingly correlated with basic biological necessity.
The influence of that instinct can be either conscious and quite blatant, or subconscious, and rather subtle. However, there can be absolutely no doubt that our actions and desires are, in fact, influenced and driven by instinct nonetheless.
That influence exists for a reason. Our species quite literally
would not be here without it.
Again your perspective that sexual activity is ultimately motivated by some primitive instinct to procreate does not fit with why people pursue it today; in there currently evolved state of being. You are saying that sex exists for the sole purpose or procreation and that people seek it out based on that instinctive drive therefore any sexual act that is not rooted in this outcome and by your definition correct instinct of procreation is wrong but that does not fit with the reality of why today's humans pursue sexual interaction
I say that if that instinct exists on some subconscious level it is irrelevant to what motivates or drives people to seek out sexual pleasure today.
I take the opposite view. At the end of the day, the reasons why people may
think they are pursuing sexual activity are ultimately irrelevant.
The simple fact of the matter is that the instincts which compel human beings to indulge their sexuality in the first place only exist for one reason; procreation. They originated from that common purpose, and still work towards it even today.
Granted, some people obviously find that biological reality to be inconvenient. In that vein, they have developed technological methods of circumventing the reproductive outcomes in which sexual activity usually results, while retaining the chemical "rewards" that come along with the process.
To the people who make use of such technologies, I say...
"Meh." Like any other vice, I suppose it's fine in moderation, so long as one approaches it with the proper attitude. :shrug:
However, either way regardless, the fact still stands that, just because modern technology allows sexual activity to be treated as nothing more than a base expression of pointless hedonistic excess, doesn't mean that it actually is. The purpose of the act remains the same as it ever was.
It always will remain as such, regardless of whether we choose to openly acknowledge it or not.