ROBIN BAKER

Sex in the Future

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NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

USA (1st ed.) USA (2nd ed) Brazil Sex in the Future
A mother and son sit in a reproduction restaurant choosing his ideal gamete partner from an Internet database. A childless couple pay a single mother to carry their child. A man who is producing no sperm at all conceives with his partner. A bereaved mother commissions a clone of her dead daughter. Two men conceive a child which is carried for them in a friend’s womb.

EUROPE

UK (1st ed) UK (2nd ed) The Netherlands
In 1999, as we approached the new millennium, Sex in the Future turned our attention to the world of our reproductive futures. Basic biological factors that had shaped our reproductive behaviour for millions of years were suddenly changing in major ways. Through the technique of dramatized scenes, the ways these social and technological changes could influence sexual behaviour and relationships were graphically illustrated.
Poland Estonia Finland
The book describes a world where a combination of IVF and surrogate motherhood spells the end of infertility but also of the need for men and women to form relationships at all. Men no longer need sperm to reproduce. Families are made up of IVF babies and clones and only those who cannot afford the new technology even think about having a baby the natural way.
Germany (1st ed) Germany (2nd ed) Spain
The technological developments to trigger these changes are either already with us or only a couple of decades away. Sex in the Future might read like science fiction but for the brave new world of human reproduction it is not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’.

ASIA

Israel Taiwan China Japan
A decade after the book was published, some of the pred- ictions were already proving to be correct. Which will be next?