Prejudice in science fiction
don’t really want to get into all the metaphysics and what not…but, eunuchs do have a libido (unfortunately, thousands of men were castrated under that mistaken assumption so that they could be safekeepers for harems…and let’s not even go into the famous castrati sopranos of the catholic church [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] ), also, dt, genes are on chromosomes, each complement of chromosomes distinguishing one species from another, so we don’t usually clone from one gene [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img], finally, there is a little scifi book written about 30 years ago called [i]friends come in boxes[/i]…the premise of this novel was that people would be immortal by virtue of the capability to transplant their brains into new bodies every 100 years or so…what no one took into account was that by the time you had lived 600 years or so, sex just wasn’t that interesting anymore…so they no longer had enough new bodies to transplant into…and the clones rights people were tying things up in legal battles…so while you were waiting for a new body, your brain would sit in a box with nutrients and speech and hearing synthesizers… your idea of sex drive dying down is not entirely unfeasible…given that the population is old and jaded enough [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
by the way, lack of libido is frequently a sign of depression, at least in this reality… [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]