Kamasutra 1.2.37

1.2.37

śarīrasthitihetutvād āhārasadharmāṇo hi kāmāḥ/ phalabhūtāś ca dharmārthayoḥ//

This objection cannot be sustained, for pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are consequently equally required. They are, moreover, the results of Dharma and Artha. Pleasures are therefore, to be followed with moderation and caution. No one refrains from cooking food because there are beggars to ask for it, or from sowing seed because there are deer to destroy the corn when it is grown up.