I think of random things that would make good areas of exploration in the form of a novel or movie fairly frequently.\u00a0 I will share a recent one with the internet now.<\/p>\n
Basic Premise<\/strong>:<\/p>\n People grow to maturity and live forever in a young, healthy state provided they do not have sex.\u00a0 Sex causes the beginning of aging as we know it now, resulting in death approximately 60 years later.<\/p>\n Explanations\/Mechanism<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Evolution has resulted in a metabolism that doesn’t trigger the aging process until after it believes reproduction has taken place.<\/p>\n Technology exists to allow immortality, but society demands aging and death after reproduction.<\/p>\n Alternatives\/Considerations:<\/strong><\/p>\n The trigger is not sex, but actual reproduction.<\/p>\n The trigger is imperfect, allowing one to fool the mechanism.\u00a0 This could have multiple forms.\u00a0 Perhaps some sort of medical treatment, like a contraceptive, or, if the mechanism of aging is imposed by the society, secreting the sexual activity from the authorities.<\/p>\n What if one is infertile?<\/p>\n What about the case of non-consensual sex?<\/p>\n What exactly counts as sex?\u00a0 Lots of details in that I’ll just leave to you to come up with.<\/p>\n The fun of these, for me, is that they are interesting thought experiments.\u00a0 I like to consider possible scenarios under which such a circumstance would come to be, how and why it would be maintained, and the wide reaching ramifications.\u00a0 I encourage you all to do the same, and not to just stick with the obvious mundane sexual question that it all began with.<\/p>\n I give permission for production of creative works exploring these ideas.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure I don’t have the rights, but in case you were worried about being polite or whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think of random things that would make good areas of exploration in the form of a novel or movie fairly frequently.\u00a0 I will share a recent one with the internet now. Basic Premise: People grow to maturity and live forever in a young, healthy state provided they do not have sex.\u00a0 Sex causes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-think","tag-plot-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generoseberry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}