Sex In The Future: The Reproductive Revolution And How It Will Change Us

Baker explains the technologies of assisted reproduction that are currently available and those likely to become available: from in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood to cloning, gamete banking, and novel ways of micro-manipulating sperm and egg, testes and ovaries. Also discusses the changes in society, relationships, and attitudes that the new technologies will catalyze. Predicts a social revolution -- the decline of the nuclear family in favor of the single-parent family, the potentially complete separation of sex from reproduction, and the rise of a reproductive bazaar, where people will be able to shop for their reproductive choices. Uses fictional scenarios to dramatize the ways our behavior will change, and weighs the social and moral issues.