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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is our society so obsessed over sex but also considers it a taboo?

It's contraddictory. Sex is marketed and advertised literally everywhere, yet we consider it as something "private" and "taboo" (especially in public).

Most animals aren't like that. So, why is this? *Is religion part of the problem?*
gpt
Because (1) sex is awesomely fun, but (2) sex is *really, really complicated*, while (3) sex can have significant and permanent consequences (like babies), so (4) a lot of people think that *something* ethical or at least important is going on when you have sex. As a result, it's something that most people intuitively feel should be given *some* kind of special treatment, even if there are differences of opinion as to what that looks like.

It's not strictly a religion issue either. There are plenty of people who aren't religious who consider it to be basically a private matter.