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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/22139| Title: | Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender |
| Authors: | Douglas, Fedwa Malti Fedwa Malti-Douglas |
| Keywords: | Gender |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | The Gale Group |
| Description: | Although the vast amount of media attention devoted to sex may make it seem more important than ever, in some ways sex is actually less important today than ever before. In the developed world, there has been a trend away from the wide-open spaces of agrarian settings and toward overcrowded cities, which means that most couples no longer have an urgentneedtoreproducetoprovideoffspring totakecareofthemwhentheygetolder.With fewer fields to till, infant mortality reduced, and improved health care allowing people to work for many more years, having a large number of children is no longer the standard method of retirement planning. So although at one time the ability to limit pregnancies would have had catastrophic results, today’s birth rates reflect this new reality, be it voluntarilyasinEurope, orinvoluntarily asinChina. Andnow, withartificial insemination, wedon’tevenneedthesexacttomakebabies.Soifwehumanswereevertolosetheabilityto havesexatsomepointinthefuture(heavenforbid!),thesenewtechnologieswouldallowour kind to continue to inhabit the earth for as long as the earth was inhabitable. |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/22139 |
| ISBN: | 978-0-02-865964-0 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gender |
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