Expiration Day by William Campbell Powell

Author:William Campbell Powell [Powell, William Campbell]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: ScreamQueen
ISBN: 9781466838406
Google: KTOSAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0765338289
Publisher: Tor Teen
Published: 2014-04-22T05:00:00+00:00

INTERVAL 7

The People do things differently, Tania.

We had sexual differentiation early on, but that’s long gone. It was relevant in our basic form, but once we started integrating new senses into our bodies, all those sexual characteristics had to go. We needed the nerve channels for other things, you see, so out went those irrelevant slot and key mechanisms whose only real purpose was to encourage frequent and accurate transfer of packets of genetic material. Likewise the secondary organs around constructing and feeding the young—no point. An advanced species such as the People could do that more reliably, and less inconveniently, through external means.

Sex is what animals do, Tania. As an intelligent being, intimacy is what you’re really after. Intimacy is what holds you together across the centuries. With more senses at our disposal, there are so many more ways to express feelings. Gender—congruence and complementarity—no longer defines us; our polysensory diversity takes us to a higher level of comprehension, of integration, of communication between the self and the not-self.

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