If Jason Vorhees taught us never to hitchike, what did we ever learn from Urusei Yatsura?

The borderline Buddhist messaging is pretty clear when you realize Ataru's attachment to women is the source of the problem, not to mention Ran's obsessive rivalry with Lum and the way the Shinto master Cherry is obviously a fraud. Its like an absurd counterpart to Sex and Zen minus the graphic love scenes and Amy Yip's huge tits (although Lum doesn't exactly disappoint in that area). Chasing after girls skirts leads to karmic retribution in the form of forced marriage to an alien princess. But is the show encouraging me to seek carnel relations with alien women or dissuade me? I can't tell. Is it about the futility of sex? Is Ataru the boy Sisyphus doomed to be forever cockblocked?