The landscape of human reproduction is on the brink of transformation, with sex potentially becoming unnecessary for conception within the next decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/26/lab-grown-eggs-sperm-viability-uk-fertility-watchdog?
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Kyatto@leminal.space · 53 pts · 1y
Oh good, everyone just hates sex. Glad we're finally doing something about it.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 1y
Sex took everything from me.
LouNeko@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
For most people its half of everything.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website · 7 pts · 1y
Sounds like one use-case of for same-sex couples to have biological children together. Which is pretty neat IMHO!
Not to say that the more macabre use cases don't exist, of course.
Kyatto@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y
oh yeah that's super exciting, I was just making a silly joke
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
Great. Now the billionaire class can just make their lil workers en masse without any need for the plebs. What a fucking timeline.
Lugh@futurology.today · 13 pts · 1y
We still need humans for nine months to carry them to term, but I won't be surprised if there are people looking into a technological "solution" to that.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
You ever see the movie 'Bone Tomahawk'? Anyone who's seen it will know exactly where your comment made my mind go. Go watch it at least for this context.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
And raise the lil bastards.
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
The lil bastards yearn for the mines
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Either a technological solution or paying people to carry the baby and then the company takes custody after that. Either way very dystopian.
Breve@pawb.social · 14 pts · 1y
boreengreen@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
My guess is science has solved that one already. There just is no political will to do that.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Don't worry, I'm sure we will get the technology for AI raised billionaire clones at scale soon enough
drspod@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
It’s a Brave New World.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
It is exactly this. Leave it to Musk, Bezos, and Zuck to read these dystopian novels and think, "Wow, what a beautiful future. Let's build that!"
They won't need AI to replace everybody, just test tube babies cultivated for one specific task: compliance.
Edit: Autocomplete was incorrect.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Sex has been unnecessary for conception since Dolly the sheep was cloned over twenty years ago.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I take this back. Sex has been unnecessary for conception since the the invention of IVF
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 7 pts · 1y
It already is and has been for a long time? Usually very expensive and not nearly as much fun though.
Shriukan@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
So how far are we from using the Three Seashells and will we be able to afford the Cursing fines to wipe our asses?
Dasus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Let the sex wars begin.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website · 5 pts · 1y
As usual, it sounds like the technology could be used for genuinely good things.
It could be used for horrible things too, yes, but that's often how it goes.
shoulderoforion@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
What are you gonna do next, get rid of pizza?
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Science nerds "If I can't get laid NO ONE CAN GET LAID!"
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Yayyy I can finally take over the world using my very own clone army uwu
SARGE@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
SparrowHawk@feddit.it · -3 pts · 1y
The final step for the patriarchy to get rid of women's primordial powers. But they will fail