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Why sex could be history
From artificial wombs to men and women being able to reproduce entirely alone, Aarathi Prasad says science is rewriting the rules of sex and human reproduction. What would that mean for our ideas of family and parenthood?
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

    Why sex could be history

    From artificial wombs to men and women being able to reproduce entirely alone, Aarathi Prasad says science is rewriting the rules of sex and human reproduction. What would that mean for our ideas of family and parenthood?

    Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

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      I’m completely…. Completely blown away by this. Just the very fact that the...advanced...
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      pretty awesome stuff
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      (or want to) deny...animal urges to actually mate.
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      This is really, really interesting. A point they didn’t get into in the article would be transgender would-be parents no...
    14. dustedsunshine reblogged this from franriley and added:
      I find this both fascinating and a little scary - of course, it’s a wonderful step forward for couples (same sex or...
    15. satanwithavagina reblogged this from onehundreddollars and added:
      This is pretty mindblowing.
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      It’ll completely destroy them.
    18. intriguedromance reblogged this from misterdelfuego and added:
      Doubt it. Besides, people don’t have sex just for reproduction.
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      This is astounding. I bloody knew they’d
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      Reproductive Sex Could Be History...and new technologies are
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      oh, science

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