The Nature-as-Agent speeches of Giles seemed directed at the idea that Nature doesn't act in the interests of the human species. The real problem is with the attempt to present Sex-as-Good when it's Hey-Metaphysically-Stoned-Soul-Sex-Is-Good. It's the old "Hey, sex is natural, so you should sleep with me" approach -- except here it was "This is natural, in fact hypernatural, and if you don't like it, you are anti-sex". It wasn't just Buffy under the influence -- we were being told, along with her, "You'll take it and like it." There was no attempt to render the sex remotely questionable for a moment. None of the blurry hallucinatory bits of WtWTA.

The reduction of sex to sex-as-schtick has as its fallout the trivialization of sexual assault, which is only made more problematic by the collision between the fictional & non-fictional scenarios in "Seeing Red", by leaving 'she was playing with fire' as a plausible reading of the narrative despite the obscenity of its assertion in life. Its contrived & arbitrary use is sensationalistic -- actually worse, even imposing trauma, because the camera angle puts us in Buffy's place.