Gene Research and Castration

[Khaled (imported)]

I saw a scientific article, written about 8 years ago, stating that with the growth in the knowledge of gene technology and of viruses it should become possible to develop a virus which would attack and destroy the male's testicles. The mumps virus is already a very inefficient and only occasionally successful version of such a virus, but it gives scientists something to start with and to perfect. The article went on to say that it would probably also be possible to refine the virus so that it only attacked a particular 'racial' group. With all the men of that racial group having been made eunuchs by the virus, the women from that group would have to mate with some other racial group (the attacking nation!!), if they wanted to reproduce.

I read this article on the notice board in the Science Lab of a Girls' School. It had apparently been put up there by a female teacher for the girls to ponder.

Remember that the technology now available to reproduce without the prescence of any male was developed by a woman. The genes from 2 individuals can be combined and inserted into an ovum which is then fertile. This is not cloning, where one merely reproduces an exact copy of an already existing individual, but is still 'sexual', in the sense that genes from two separate individuals are used to produce a new, genetically unique individual (if the genes from 2 women were used the new individual will also be female).

There has been a huge and rapidly growing knowledge of gene and virus technology developed since that article was written. I just wonder how many girls have been 'stimulated' by their teachers to be, at this very moment, working on a 'testicle-destroying' virus. There are enough women in positions of power with the will and finances to support such research. It may just be a matter of time!!!

Khaled.