That's just fallen human nature. The lie of the devil is that you can eat the fruit without the curse. When you understand that, all of the behaviors that our societies engage in suddenly make all the sense in the world. Technology is man's means of eliminating the curse, but the curse can never be truly removed. If anything, technology has only exacerbated the curse. Only in Christ can the curse be defeated.We live in a culture of immediate gratification and this plays a huge role in the dysfunction between the sexes.
Fornication is sex without any of the self-sacrifice that comes with it, such as marriage, family building, etc. We have gotten so bad that we are willing to literally sacrifice others for the sake of our own pleasure.
My problem with strict asceticism is that it is self-sacrifice unto itself. In that sense, there is no functional difference between the monk who practices self-denial and the hedonist who plunges himself into licentiousness; an abiding functional society cannot be built on either. Self-sacrifice is for the sake of others, for the koinonia. That is the balance that must be maintained if the society is to survive.