An Indian-origin research geneticist has claimed that sexless reproduction is possible in future for humans too. Aarathi Prasad, who has written a celebration of all the eccentric creatures like the whiptail lizard capable of reproducing by themselves without sexual contact, asserted that as the test-tube babies were the stuff of science fiction a generation ago and now they are a reality, similarly babies could be born without sperm donor, let alone contact between the sexes, in future.
Aarathi Prasad from Imperial College London has a wrote a book ‘Like A Virgin’ in which she claims that the human beings are in control of their own destiny and there is nothing sacred or special about life itself. In her book she pointed out that virgin births are now almost within the grasp of science.
According to Prasad, it will one day be technically possible for a man to develop a child in an artificial womb (a plastic container specially designed to hold fluids and bacteria found in natural wombs) without the co-operation of any female partner.
Prasad claims that now that the science has already developed artificial sperm which has produced offspring, a synthetic egg is also not a far cry.