Sex will not be used to have babies in just 10 years, as couples turn to IVF
By Daniel Martin Last updated at 7:55 AM on 18th May 2010 fist tap Hot Wax
Couples will stop having sex to conceive babies within a decade and use IVF instead, scientists said yesterday.
They say 30-somethings will increasingly rely on artificial methods of fertilisation because natural human reproduction is 'fairly inefficient'.

It means that in future, sex will be nothing more than a leisure activity - the latest blow to the Christian idea that the role of sex is to produce children. Dying art: IVF could become better than sex for making babies
Dying art: IVF could become better than sex for making babies - leaving the physical act purely as a means of giving pleasure. If the experts are right, it means the sci-fi world of books such as Brave New World, in which all children are born in 'hatcheries', could soon be closer to reality.
And it raises ethical questions over whether greater use of IVF will lead to eugenics, with couples screening out characteristics they regard as undesirable.

Anybody notice that the "experts" in the study were...Veterinarians? Not that the study is good or bad...but why are doggie doctors publishing anything about IVF...rather than say someone who actually performs IVF?
"'Within the next five to ten years, couples approaching 40 will assess the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby.' He based his hunch on the fact that in cattle, IVF works almost every time. He said there was no reason that success rate could not be replicated in humans."
IVF is expensive. And invasive. I don't think folks are going to quite having sex in favor of IVF to procreate. Sure if you are in your 40's and well off (usually costs about $10,000/pop, and often takes multiple attempts before success) trying IVF may be AN option, but the FIRST option is a stretch. This study seems pretty silly.
Denmark Vesey said ...

Let me see if I can help you better understand Doc.
1) Most IVF is conducted by "veterinarians". (From where do you think all of this cloned factory meat is coming?)
2) Intelligence is essentially pattern recognition.
The pattern shows that Americans and just about everyone else is industrialized societies are becoming less fertile. We are barely at replacement rates now. Most of the girls I went to college with who are now in their late 30's early 40's are either without children or have had to resort to IVF to have a child.
3) Because of the toxins in the food (GMO), vaccines and environmental pollutants, the population is being slowly and systematically sterilized.
4) Those well educated enough are familiar with the Eugenics Movement and understand that it did not die with Margaret Sanger, The Rockefellers or the Nazis. It continues today disguised under various appellations like the WHO or "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation".
There is a concerted effort to reduce the population of the world. Some populations of "undesirables" (CNu calls them "eaters") are being reduced faster than others. Thus the African Genocide disguised as an "AIDS epidemic" on the continent and the Obesity Epidemic of African Americans here in the US.
(BTW: How many 70 year old people do you know who weigh more than 200 pounds?)
"IVF is expensive. And invasive. I don't think folks are going to quite having sex in favor of IVF to procreate." DMG
5) "Folks" don't have much of a choice. Sex has already been disassociated from reproduction. (The real motivation behind the proselytizing of homosexuality and the normalization of porn)
The fact that it is expensive coupled with diminishing natural fertility .... REGULATES WHO GETS TO REPRODUCE.
Now the wealthy and elite can assure their continuation, while the poor and ethnic reproduce at the pleasure of the Technocrats who will make those choices dependent upon their labor needs.
6) Replacing sex for reproduction with technology for reproduction allows those who control the technology ... TO PLAY GOD. All roads lead to apotheosis.
You with me, or you need me to slow down? Or maybe you need a few Plantation studies before it makes sense. Either way ... think about it.