I would say the world is over sexed, that is the issue. There is nothing wrong with sex - sex is fine. The Vedic culture is not hiding it – it is not putting it behind closed curtains. In fact, Vedic culture is very open about it. A couple that wants to conceive a child is asking everyone for blessings, which is something you wouldn’t do these days! So Vedic culture in one way is quite open about it – not at all in hiding sexual activity, but it’s done in a blessed way. First one must prepare to conceive a child – not in the back of a car on a Saturday night, or something like that, after having drunk quite a bit of liquor – not like that, but actually by purifying the consciousness, because it is mentioned that whatever the state of consciousness the parent's is – that is the child you will attract at the time of conception. When the male and female secretions mix then from a subtle platform the living entity enters, and the living entity that enters is in a state of consciousness that corresponds with the consciousness of the parents. So if they are drunk, then what do you get? And so on.
So in Vedic culture it's now - before you go ahead, first some purification is required.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm, Februrary 2011)
