Well, early this week, two pieces of news looked up at me trying to say something:-
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6681793.stm
“Female hammerhead sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists confirm.
The evidence comes from a shark at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska which gave birth to a pup in 2001 despite having had no contact with a male.
Genetic tests by a team from Belfast, Nebraska and Florida prove conclusively the young animal possessed no paternal DNA, Biology Letters journal reports. “
2.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=10&theme=&usrsess=1&id=157116
“Mr Partha Sarathi Ghose of the state’s animal husbandry department today said that the hen changed its gender without artificial intervention at Kamat-Chengrabanda village in Mekhligunj sub-division. Officials of the department rushed to the village with the local block development officer after a paper published the news yesterday. Claiming that there were scientific reasons behind the change, Mr Ghose described it as a “rarest of rare incidents”
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6681793.stm
“Female hammerhead sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists confirm.
The evidence comes from a shark at Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska which gave birth to a pup in 2001 despite having had no contact with a male.
Genetic tests by a team from Belfast, Nebraska and Florida prove conclusively the young animal possessed no paternal DNA, Biology Letters journal reports. “
2.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=10&theme=&usrsess=1&id=157116
“Mr Partha Sarathi Ghose of the state’s animal husbandry department today said that the hen changed its gender without artificial intervention at Kamat-Chengrabanda village in Mekhligunj sub-division. Officials of the department rushed to the village with the local block development officer after a paper published the news yesterday. Claiming that there were scientific reasons behind the change, Mr Ghose described it as a “rarest of rare incidents”
Ever since I read about the two pieces of news….I got this nagging feeling that somehow they are connected...I have not exactly been able to figure out how…may need some help here.
Now I understand the first news has something to do with sex, or the lack of it….what they are saying is that someone (or something) gave birth without having sex.
The second one is about…well sex again, no longer a verb but a noun…a hen changed to a cock.
Ok, so both are about sex…two different parts of speech though. And you know what, now I know what connects the two. No, it is not sex….rather it is the absence of it.
Now for a moment imagine that these kind of capabilities get passed on to the human kind. And while you are at it, also imagine that a person can change sex as many times as he/she wants.
Think about it, you can morph into the opposite sex, and you can give birth without sex. The possibilities are humongous.
With asexual reproduction, the higher reason for sex, that of giving birth, will no longer apply. Now when you consider the risks of sex….from contracting all kinds of diseases, to being caught doing it by your spouse or partner (i.e when you do it with someone else, which would mostly be the case if you are getting caught)…you may just decide its not worth the trouble after all. And what will really help you reach this conclusion is the fact that you can change your gender and it may just take away the need for having sex with someone else. So phrases like pleasuring yourself will take on a whole new meaning.
So we move on to a world where you no longer have sex with others, but only with your self and are happy doing it. You will have both male and female wardrobe, you may consider “Ok, last year in K’s anniversary I was this handsome dude, lets be a gorgeous doll this year”…you get the drift?
Well the fashion and lifestyle industry will have to come-up with a whole new set of uni-sex clothing. They will be challenged about whom to appeal to …the urban male or the new woman…for they will be one and the same.
Man, this is exciting. With no need to impress the opposite sex we’ll move onto a more simple, less complicated, un-convoluted society.
Split personality will give way to split gender. There will be less wars, less frustration, less serial killers, more equal distribution of wealth (the last one I am not sure of, but then it some how seals the argument). More importantly it will spell the end of gender wars and those weeds called feminists for sex as a distinction will cease to exist.
Some may say it will be dull. Well suit yourself, to the American, President, peace is dull, so what?
There would be couples still, but they wont be getting together for pleasure or procreation but for pure love, a non-physical, spiritual relationship. Isn’t that the ultimate desired state for any relationship?
So let’s hear it for a world where you do not need sex (not even to sustain civilisation) with the opposite sex. And it is not abstinence, but rather a better, more pleasurable way to be. For you are both, the he and the she. It is the final union of the man and the woman in one body.
You made me sit up this morning and wonder just how important sex drive is to the human condition. Let's see....it will probably take less than a min for "vagina and ass monologues" to make it's appearance when I am with friends discussing some "hot" chika. I am no dispassionate witness to ascent of misery in world at large, but for me and countless others out there, sex is the focal point of our arduous journey through life that offers no other particularly convincing reason to be completed. As one of my friend's once said in not so many and not so refined words - "The only place in the world where I have ever felt truly happy was in the arms of a woman...." - well you get the drift.
ReplyDeleteOne more observation: If there is no sex, will there be any need for sex organs? Which brings me to that next point: If not, then there will be no need for pants in summer, since obviously the girls don't care if we see their asses! Hmm...that's interesting too!!
-Louise