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The difference between the mechanistic and teleological views, may be seen by considering the sex drive in animals from each perspective. To the teleologist, the sex drive is designed to reproduce the species. The pleasure which accompanies sex is the main inducement to carry out the divine plan of reproduction. If sex were generally painful, it would be avoided and the members of the species would not pursue it and hence would become extinct. Some theologians maintain that to engage in sex for the purpose of reproduction, is the only proper sexual motive. To frustrate the reproductive purpose of sex is considered perversion and hence immoral. Birth control and homosexuality are considered moral evils under this view. This is not to say that a naturalist cannot consider birth control or homosexuality, moral evils. Some naturalists do consider them evil, but not for the same reasons as the supernaturalist. A naturalist might consider birth control a moral evil if practiced deceitfully. It is also conceivable that some naturalists might even consider it a duty for
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