RuYi wrote:Dolphins do it for fun too :3
And Bonobos.
It's fake of course.
http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2005/10/20/3211.html wrote:As with the Gates memorial site, it’s completely straight-faced; there’s even an FAQ that explicitly says the site is “not a hoax like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast.” You can read about the nanomedicine revolution, view a realtime ultrasound for the first human male pregnancy, create your own genetically healthy child online, and chat online (and run a maze race) with Clyven, the world’s first transgenic mouse with human intelligence. There are interactive features and video clips all over the site. Good stuff.
Apparently the author is Virgil Wong, whose “concurrent careers as an artist/filmmaker, Web Center director, MFA faculty member, and Nia teacher all revolve around his interests in medicine, technology and the human body.” His full-time job is “Head of Web Design and Development for two prestigious non-profit medical institutions.” See also the RYT Hospital pages of his “Installations and Net Art” section. I gather that Lee Mingwei (the pregnant man) is also an artist, and was also involved in creating this work; both artists are apparently members of an art group called Paperveins.
I’m always tempted with this kind of thing to link to it as if it were something real and let y’all gradually figure out what’s going on. But for some reason this time I felt like talking about it in terms of sf from the start.
Imagining it was real for a moment...
Women don't have a value per se; it's not like they are traded like livestock.
Regardless, it would never become popular enough to replace surrogate mothers, so even if you consider them as a commodity their value would never decrease.
It would open doors for homosexuals only when scientists are able to engineer egg cells and sperm cells (is that even possible with stem cells?); until then it wouldn't allow homosexual couples to become true biological parents together.
I assume you would treat a pregnant man the same as a pregnant woman; help them with whatever they need, be it opening doors, emotional support, etc.
No question that religious people would call it blasphemy.
It wouldn't benefit our society. Unless the gender ratio asplodes and we suddenly have no women, it would be practically useless to use "surrogate fathers". On the other hand, it could prove useful in repopulating species of animals that have unusually unbalanced gender ratios.
