No Longer A Need For The Opposite Sex

As I'm sure some of you have heard, we have now discovered that it is possible for babies to grow outside of the womb. What does this have to do with anything? Well, if a womb is not necessary to grow a baby, perhaps there is a possibility that men would be able to bear children even without the presence of a womb. Obviously it would not be possible to have a natural vaginal delivery, but a type of C section is a possibility.

This miracle baby is Billy Jones. When Jayne Jones became pregnant, she went in for a 27 week check up and discovered that her son wasn't growing in her womb. Billy was actually growing in Jayne's abdomen on her omentum, which is the fat layer that covers the bowels. Billy was delivered at 28 weeks weighing a little over 2 pounds but ALIVE! There have been other cases reported to have this same problem, including a set of triplets in which one child grew outside of the womb but I don't know if that child lived so I won't say much about it. But if this is possible, perhaps same sex couples could now have their own children. Fascinating stuff....


So what does Billy have to do with mythology? Well we've discussed child bearing in class and how people used to think that women just had babies. Poof! Pregnant. Baby. All on her own! Obviously now we know differently, but with this new discovery, perhaps women won't be valued as much anymore. Could you imagine how ecstatic Zues would have been if he found out he never needed women to reproduce?! That would have been phenomenal for him!

Along with babies growing outside of the womb, women can also go to a sperm bank and become pregnant through artificial insemination. I don't know for sure if we can synthetically create sperm but I'm sure one day we'll be able to do that too. It's amazing to me how we hardly need the opposite sex at all anymore for reproductive reasons.