but I... LOVE spaghetti

Well... here's the thing... sexual is totally an emotion. It's lust. Lust's an emotion to me. It may not be a nice selfless nurturing one like love, but just like anger/sadness it totally is one. This is all relative anyway since 'emotion' is actually a word we give to chemical reactions in our brains that we recognize certain feelings of that we describe vaguely.

You can distinguish sex from love, but you can't distinguish it from emotion, because being loveless doesn't make something emotionless.

Sex, even if not mutually consensual, can still carry a pleasant physical sensation. I'm not really sure why you added that 'if'. Sex can be good or suck regardless of consent, dependant upon the personality types of the people doing it. Overall I think people tend to respond better if it's mutually consenting though, yes, as people who like nonconsent on either end tend to be in the minority.

If spirituality transcends emotion then maybe it's also intellectual in nature. There's not really anyhting beyond that. Like love, people have different perceptions of 'spiritual'. You are not the authority on it. Please speak more humbly Dissident. You are describing spirituality to YOU.

Your contentions here are interesting but mainly a personal explanation that's cool.

Being bereft of the desire to have a full relationship with 'it' (lol, nice) does not make you a fetishist. Sorry, but you don't have to want to spend the rest of your days with a girl to not be a fetishist. Face it, it's the 'fetish' which draws your gaze and lures you in to discover a personality. This is some elitist annoying 'oh look how unshallow I am' type stuff.

Building religions doesn't draw much of my respect. A philosophy perhaps, sure, but even then I don't totally see the point. The girls I tend to like tend to be more predominantly those who might feel bad if they were worshipped to excess since they tend to care about other people and empathize with'm and aspire to higher stuff.