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Will We Still Need to Have Sex?
Need to? Maybe not. Want to? You betcha. There will be no lack of sex in the future, but our couplings will be geared more toward pleasure than procreation. As humans move toward a mastery of genetics and cloning, instead of hit-and-miss couplings, we'll head straight for the lab. While causing no end of headaches for ethicists and traditionalists, we'll choose our offspring's traits, manipulating our genes into an ideal blueprint for life.
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    American Society for Reproductive Medicine
    Results from studies on reproduction and reproductive disorders, patient education fact sheets and information on current clinical trials and state infertility insurance laws

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