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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing)
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Subject: Re: mono sex societies
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Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 19:46:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 19:46:19 1985
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In article <215@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> A.Cobley%dundee.ac.uk@ucl-cs.ARPA writes:
>		For any biologist out there, whats the fesability of
>taking genes from two females and combining them together, replanting
>them in a ovum and so get birth from the result.
>
>	Any one know of any stories based on this?

I know I have read a short story like this.  Some colony got hit by a plague
which killed all of the men.  The women figured out a way to fertilize each
other.  A long time later, a "rescue team" shows up, consisting of some men.
They knew that there were only women left, and expected to be jumped all over
by the women.  The showed up making snide remarks about how the women must be
really lonley, etc.  But the women had no idea what they were talking about.

Unfortunately, I don't remenber who wrote it or what the title was, but it
might have been in one of the Dangerous Visions books.

						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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