Am I Supposed to be Surprised?

When you take the procreation out of recreation, it's only a matter of time until you take the recreation out of procreation:

Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to "diarise" their busy lives.

Wealthy career women in their 30s and early 40s, some of whom have given up regular sex altogether, are turning to "medicalised conception" - despite being fertile and long before they have exhausted the possibility of a natural conception.

They are prepared to pay thousands of pounds for private IVF treatments - even though they have unpleasant and potentially harmful side effects - because they believe it offers them the best chance of "instant" pregnancy.

Link.

It's a brave new world and, as John Lukacs has observed,the best distinction between peoples is no longer conservative and liberal, but those who embrace the brave new world and those who question it.