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...Love," targets conflicting images of sexuality as represented by mainstream society, moral codes and our impulsive biology. The struggle is phrased as the question of whether or not to reproduce-a baby wriggles between "sacred" Christ and "profane" naked couple, surrounded by scrawled mathematical equations, sketches of mechanical apparatus, sperm, houses, a clock and other miscellany...
...Last week you suggested that a dining hall Chickwich could be used as a barrier contraceptive. After extensive field testing, we found that it was, in fact, a viable option and effectively barricades the cervix from sperm using both physical and chemical means. A caveat: Chickwiches should not be used during a woman's menstral cycle due to the risk of TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). Thanks...
...good supply of frozen semen, a truckload of turkey basters and go their own way. But men will be catching up. For one thing, until now, frozen-and-thawed ova have been tricky to fertilize because their outer membrane gets too hard. But a new technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection makes frozen ova fully fertilizable, and so now Guy Land can have its ovum banks. As for the incubation problem, a few years ago feminist writer Gena Corea offered the seemingly paranoid suggestion that men might eventually keep just a few women around in "reproductive brothels," gestating on demand...
...stories, but, in this account, they very likely brought home the occasional antelope haunch, and they almost certainly played a major role in defending the family from four-legged predators. In contrast, the rapist generally operates on a hit-and-run basis--which may be all right for stocking sperm banks, but is not quite so effective if the goal is to produce offspring who will survive in a challenging environment. The children of guys who raped-and-ran must have been a scrawny lot and doomed to end up on some leopard's lunch menu...
Cryos appears likely to continue to dominate Europe's commercial sperm-donor industry, and its growing success is provoking some criticism. Charles Sims, a clinical pathologist who co-founded California Cryobank, the best-known U.S. sperm bank, thinks Cryos' claims of market dominance are misplaced. "Sperm is not a commodity," he says. "It's not something you're selling like aspirin." But Ole Schou shrugs off those views. He is passionate about his company's mission to help thousands of would-be parents. In fact, he and his wife are about to become first-time parents--the old-fashioned...