If you believe in freedom, its irrelevant whether you think sex outside marriage is wrong.
Then we don't believe in "freedom", I suppose...
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That said, even if you believe the government should regulate things that are harmful, the onus is on the proponents of prohibition to demonstrate that it is actually physically or psychologically harmful. So far you have given us nothing.
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Why? According to whom?
Using drugs falls into the same category...indeed, most of the dangers of drug use stem from it's legal status. Nobdoy bothered convincing "us"...nevermind the arbitrary exemption of alcohol...
And yes, one could argue about the harmful affects the sexualization of society has...from expoitation of people using sexual imagery, to areas where the average child bearing age is 15, and so on...
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just a last point to make, Governments should have no right to interfere in the private lives of individuals. If 2 unmarried adults agree to have a sexual relationship in private then that is their business. There is no need for govt's to shove their moral code down everyone's throat.
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If these 2 unmarried adults start blabbing about their relationship, and suggest there's nothing wrong with it, contrary to the mores of the rest of society...indeed, even as an attempt to subvert and alter society... (which is apparently a very good thing when liberals do it, but when us conservatives do it people start talking about mass deportations)...then it's not so private.
It's one thing for state officials to do spot-checks in peoples bedrooms...it's another to catch people in the act...