Pack your bag, passport, significant other, sperm count and credit card... you’re baby-making vacation bound. Is cash flow a little tight? Perhaps you're genetically taller than the average bear, German-esque, blue eyed, blonde and abundant in eggs. Get yourself to the front of the queue ‘cause your little waiting-to-be-fertilised ones are currently in super high in vitro demand. Looking to rent a womb? Grab the Amex and jump an international flight to Delhi... there's a few thousand bargain priced incubator pit-stop options available.
OK so I begin in jest. Yet this is a serious choice made by 1,000s of singles and couples around the globe each year. Families today are a mixed bag of technicolour’d all-sorts. The matrimonially joined can skip down the isle, be self-committed, life partnered, divorced, de facto’d, monogamously gay, open relationship transgender’d or be interracially shot-gun’d with seriously limited conversational skills. Long gone are the religious and societal constraints of a traditional family unit. Today, with our (apparently) more evolved thinking and acclimatisation to these newer kindred units, there still remains a strong innate desire to pro-create.
The thing is, no matter how much love and commitment exists between two humans, or anything else coupled in the mammal world… two penises or two vaginas draw long straws when it comes to producing a baby. It is for now an 'Adam and Eve still required' process. Perhaps this is why surrogacy has seriously kicked in as a viable propogative option in the last 30 years.
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