Is sex a "disgusting, wicked drive"?

Since You Asked: Uncommon Advice from Cary Tennis

Today I respond to the below comment from someone who identifies himself as "Ugly hunchback," posted on last week's column, as though it were a question. It expresses suffering for which I propose an antidote. The author of the comment was apparently alerted to this column by my 2006 Salon.com column on suicide which after 15 years still attracts fresh readers and comments as recent as April 2021.
I don't quote the whole comment here, only mainly the part that concerned me. The commenter says,
"I ask mankind — at least all who believe in Christ — to kneel down and ask Him what the point of this horrible world and existence is. We only exist because of a rather disgusting, wicked drive, a drive that has no place in Heaven or even a Platonic ideal sphere, as Andy Nowicki rightly noted in “Confessions of a Would-Be Wanker”.

A pipe dream, I know, God won’t answer. I rather see sex as a result and curse of the Fall. There is no better explanation. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Weininger et al all understood that sex poses a deep existential problem. It is indeed “forbidden knowledge”, changing one’s outlook on existence forever and to 180 degrees.

* https://www.salon.com/2006/03/06/suicide_23/

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1. Is sex a "disgusting, wicked drive"? (00:00:00)

2. The Question (00:04:44)

3. "Disgusting, Wicked Drive" (00:06:53)

4. My reply: Dear Hunchback ... (00:08:42)

5. First, stop thinking! (00:12:20)

6. The anxiety of Being that is always with us (00:13:46)

7. The miracle of breath (00:14:06)

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9. Climb out of this well of suffering! (00:15:23)