Thoughts on Future Sexuality.
Dec. 9th, 2006 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupThanks to my friends list I was just watching TITLER, which is, essentially, Hitler with Tits, and I had a bit of an epiphany.
I recently read Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan and thouroughly enjoyed it, but something was bothering me about it, and I just figured it out. The story takes place in the far future and humanity is now unisexual. For the most part, people don't have genitals until they are in a relationship and then they grow a matched pair so that those two individuals can have sex if they desired.
At the time I noticed that this tended to make poly relationships, orgies, promiscuity (the organs take at least a month to grow), and masturbation impossible. It seemed to me to be awfully repressive of human sexuality to go that route, but something else was bothering me, and I couldn't put a finger on it until now.
Breasts. They also eliminated all secondary sexual characteristics. You know, I don't think I'd want to live in a world without boobs. I could survive the wierd pair-bonding thing, but I insist on there being boobs. Heck, if I had been desinging the unisex world, everyone would have breasts, because why not?
I recently read Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan and thouroughly enjoyed it, but something was bothering me about it, and I just figured it out. The story takes place in the far future and humanity is now unisexual. For the most part, people don't have genitals until they are in a relationship and then they grow a matched pair so that those two individuals can have sex if they desired.
At the time I noticed that this tended to make poly relationships, orgies, promiscuity (the organs take at least a month to grow), and masturbation impossible. It seemed to me to be awfully repressive of human sexuality to go that route, but something else was bothering me, and I couldn't put a finger on it until now.
Breasts. They also eliminated all secondary sexual characteristics. You know, I don't think I'd want to live in a world without boobs. I could survive the wierd pair-bonding thing, but I insist on there being boobs. Heck, if I had been desinging the unisex world, everyone would have breasts, because why not?
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