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Rasmoh posted...

Pregnancy isn't a side-effect, it's the biologically expected outcome.

Side effects are effects that occur outside of what's expected or intended. In the vast majority of cases that people are having sex, pregnancy is neither intended nor expected. Therefore, pregnancy should be considered a side effect of achieving the primary goal (pleasure) in those cases. Biology has nothing to do with it; expectations/intentions are defined by those involved in the process, whatever pointlessly reductionist approach you can take to analyzing their motivations.

Heck, even in instances where people do consider reproduction to be the primary purpose of sex and aren't doing anything to try to prevent it, calling it the "expected outcome" is a stretch. Women are only fertile for roughly a third of each month, and only for about 60-70% of their adult lives. Even during those periods, fertilization is hardly guaranteed. Randomly having sex without specifically trying to reproduce is quite a bit less likely to result in pregnancy than not, which is entirely the opposite of what "the expected outcome" means.