What Would Happen If Everyone in the World Lost Their Sex Drive? http://ift.tt/2yklfTJ Online dating apps, pornography, advertising, and the continued existence of the human race all testify to a healthy, ongoing interest in sex among human beings, despite the fact that millennials appear to be having less of it. Until the day pills or radiation extinguish the last embers of human horniness, sex will likely continue to shape and govern society in all kinds of ways. It’s worth wondering, though, what a world without a sex drive might look like. How would it affect the way we interact with one another? What would it mean for the environment? And with the species potentially at risk of extinction, would it be ethical for governments to intervene in some way? Advertisement To address these questions in this week’s Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of sociologists, population scientists and bioethicists with a range of opinions, who among other things pointed out that “sex” and “sex drive” haven’t always historically had a lot to do with one another. Gregory MitchellAssistant Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Williams College and author of Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy
Cary Gabriel CostelloAssociate Professor of Sociology and Director of LGBT+ Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Robyn Lewis BrownAssociate Professor, Department of Sociology and Co-Director, Health, Society, and Populations Program at the University of Kentucky
Laura M. CarpenterAssociate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and author of Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout our Lives
Rene AlmelingAssociate Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Yale University and the author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm (University of California Press, 2011).
Rachel FranklinAssociate Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and Associate Professor (Research), Population Studies at Brown University
Ronald M. GreenProfessor Emeritus of bioethics at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and an emeritus member of Dartmouth’s Religion Department, where he is a specialist in the ethical teachings of the world’s religious traditions.
Michelle MeyerAssistant Professor & Associate Director of Research Ethics at the Center for Translational Bioethics & Health Care Policy at the Geisinger Health System
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