On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Philip C. Mak wrote:

While the role of the male is a vital part in the creation of a fetus,
after the egg is fertilized he doesn't have to do anything more. Now if
that virus had left only 4% of the FEMALE population fertile, then there
would be a future population problem. I could see the governments heavily
encouraging and paying a lot to fertile males in order to get them to
participate in artificial insemination programs and the like, but all that
talk about body shops, government agents stalking a single male, etc. just
isn't justified here, not with the numbers we have been given.

Read "The Handmaid's Tale" -- I wish I could remember the author (I think
her name is Margret Atwood, but I'm far from sure)  The situation is
almost exactly what is described -- about 1% of the females are fertile.
A very cool story, and a very good feminist text.




--Matt

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