There is no energy on the planet as powerful as sexual energy.
If the love between a husband and wife grows they will no longer be husband and wife: their relationship will change and there will be less sex between them. Their relationship will change into love. As long as there is sex, there is exploitation. Sex is exploitation – and how can you exploit the person you love? Sex is the most degrading and the most exploitive use of a living being. If you love someone how can you exploit them in such a way? How can you use a living being in such a way? If you love someone, as your love goes deeper the exploitation will disappear. And if your love disappears the exploitation will again increase.
This is why I would like to say to the person who has asked about how to make sex a creative energy that sex is a very mysterious energy. There is no energy on the planet as powerful as sexual energy. Most of man’s focus is on sex. Ninety percent of his life is based in the sex center, it is not based in the divine. There are very few people whose lives revolve around the divine. Most people are revolving around and living their lives through the sex center. Sex is the greatest energy. And if understood rightly, you will see that there is no other energy which motivates man as much as sex. But this sexual energy itself can be transformed into love. And this same energy, if transformed, can become the path to enlightenment.
So it is worth noting that religion is deeply connected with sex – not with the repression of sex, as is commonly understood, but with the transformation of sex. Religion is not about the repression of sex. Celibacy is not the opposite of sex, it is the transformation of sex. The energy of sex itself is transformed into the divine energy. The energy which was flowing downwards, which was descending, starts moving upwards. If the sexual energy is rising upwards it will help you to attain the ultimate state of consciousness. And if this energy is moving downwards it leads only to a mundane existence. But this energy can be transformed through love.
Learn how to love. Learn the meaning of love. Later on, when we talk about emotions, then you will clearly understand the meaning of love. For now I will say only this much.
-Osho, "The Path of Meditation, #3"