Children without sex is what the future holds, claims inventor of the Pill

[Herman Munster]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=459075&in_page_id=1879

Let us take a journey through time to the year 2050. Our time machine has landed in the spacious drawing room of Barbara, the 45-year-old owner of a smart advertising agency, and Michael, her equally high-flying husband, in their London townhouse. Barbara’s career ambitions have been realised, and she is at the top of her game, wealthy and happily married. The time is right to start a family.

If she’d had a baby in her 20s or 30s, setting up her own agency — what with all those 15-hour days — would have been virtually impossible. But now it’s not a problem. Barbara simply puts in a call to the baby bank, where her eggs are kept in "cryopreservation". Barbara deposited them there when she was 20, when they were in their prime. The eggs are transported to the lab, along with Michael’s sperm — which he has taken the precaution of having frozen, too — and an embryo is produced and returned to her womb. Nine months later, their "ice baby" is born.

Barbara is not alone. In the year 2050, thousands of middle-aged women like her — and some even older — are putting motherhood on ice until the time is absolutely right. One might think this Huxleyesque vision of a Brave New World just a few years from now sounds a little fantastical. Yet it is the prediction of one of the world’s most eminent scientists, Carl Djerassi.

Professor Djerassi is the man who invented the Pill, the first oral contraceptive, which triggered the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and which many would argue changed the face of society and sexual morality for ever — and not necessarily for the better. The Pill gave us sex without children. Now Djerassi has turned that concept on its head. He believes the developed world is heading towards its next cultural revolution — children without sex.

[cassiepriam]

1. Do we want the future of the human race stored in freezers?

Let's hope the power doesn't go out.

[AnneD]

2. I guess it was too much to ask for...

sex without babies......

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. No kidding! Imagine the population explosion if EVERY woman had a baby every time she had sex (or

every nine months)! Good grief! I thought we were concerned about over population?

[jmowreader]

6. Oh Deidre, will you get that?

Cue up "Every Sperm is Sacred"...

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Cued.....

Monty Python Every Sperm Is Sacred Lyrics
There are Jews in the world, there are Buddhists,
There are Hindus and Mormons and then,
There are those that follow Mohammad,
But I've never been one of them...

I'm a Roman Catholic, and have been since the day I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics,
Is they'll take you as soon as you're warm...

You don't have to be a six-footer,
You don't have to have a great brain,
You don't have to have any clothes on -
You're a Catholic the moment dad came...

because...

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

Let the heathen spill theirs, on the dusty ground,
God shall make them pay for each sperm that can't be found

Every sperm is wanted, every sperm is good,
Every sperm is needed in your neighborhood.

Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,


Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is good,
Every sperm is needed,
In your neighborhood.

Every sperm is useful, every sperm is fine,
God needs everybody's,
Mine
And mine
And mine

Let the Pagan spill theirs,
O'er mountain, hill and plain,
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good,
Every sperm is needed in your neighborhood.

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

[Karenina]

8. Patriarchal types

HATE THAT SHIT!

[originalpckelly]

3. This is not a "Brave New World" until people are matured in tubes...

and not only that, are specifically altered in order to produce castes, instead of letting them choose their own destiny.

[jmowreader]

5. It's not entirely far-fetched, especially since you can do it now

Ova freeze and thaw very nicely. Sperm likewise freeze and thaw well. Fertilize previously-frozen ova with previously-frozen sperm--nine months later, you get a bouncing baby.

I don't really see a problem with this--lots of couples are not emotionally or financially ready to have kids when they're young. So why NOT freeze a big jar of ova for the day when you're really READY to have kids?

I am going to make a bold prediction: producing children using traditional methods (fucking) will never go out of fashion.

[WinkyDink]

7. Children without sex ~~~Isn't this a common complaint of parents? Hee.

[mentalsolstice]

10. OTOH, sex without children!

Oh my! Me and my spouse have enjoyed such! ;-)