I understand the arguments, but I don't like them very much and I'll try and explain a reason why ..
I don't think they relate well to human experiences. If I want to have sex, I do not think in my head that I want it because I want to ease my suffering. The reason I want sex is because of the rewards. That means that if I want sex because I want to ease suffering, that thought or motivation is not concious and must take place in the subconcious or some other level inside our outside myself. While it is possible to argue that suffering motivates us this way, it is extremely hard to prove and I would say that there's a lot of evidence against this argument. Proving that the act is motivated by reward is relatively easy. You can just relate it to human experience, like your own - or you could ask someone else.
(I'm talking generally here, I guess there could be some very special individuals who have possibly had a hard time and really do use sex as a concious way to ease suffering.)
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