---"Philip C. Mak" <pmak@cs.dal.ca> wrote:>

There's one thing that doesn't add up for me here in this fanfic.

75% of

the men are dead, 21% are alive but sterile, and 4% are alive and

fertile.

From my impression of the story, I am assuming that the 4% fertile

ones

tend to have better genes on average (1. people like Ranma/Ryouga,

but not

Sasuke/Gosunkugi are fertile, and 2. at the end of the notes it

suggested

that this virus was for cleaning up the population of people with bad
genes).

Now, assume they want to get every female pregnant. For the sake of
argument, assume there's the same amount of females as there were

males

before the virus (that's underestimating, but the numbers still work

out

approximately right). For every female to receive sperm from one male,
that means every male has to give sperm to 25 females. If every male

gives

sperm to a different female every day, every female will receive

sperm 14

times a year. That's enough times to get pregnant, assuming the

females

receive sperm on the correct days during their menstrual cycle. If

they

time it appropriately, theoretically they _should_ be able to get

enough

females pregnant. (I'm saying the male only gives sperm once a day

to show

that there shouldn't be a need to give them sperm production

increasing

drugs.)

Now, let's say only half of the fertile males are willing to be used

in

this way. The government should be able to pay them a magnificent

amount

to encourage them to help, considering there's that much more

resources in

the world now since 40% of the population is dead. That still means

every

female will have sex 7 times a year.

So anyway, my bottom line is, I don't see how having only 4% of the
original male population being fertile would cause enough of a problem
that the governments start kidnapping fertile males against their

will.

<snip.>

Hello.

 I remember watching a Sliders episode a few years ago that dealt with
this entire subject. I can not remember which season of the Sliders it
was on. But it was before the Prof. got killed. Sorry for the spam.

Bye.

Love is Eternal.
 Hatred is Infinite.
 Hope is Forever. 


 
 



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