"I tell you that love has nothing to do with the conception of a child or the formation of a family," Dr Steven Myers told his wife Dr Elizabeth Myers one night over dinner.
"Of course all you need for conception is an egg and a sperm, coupled with a 9 month gestation period and there you have your child," Steven continued.
"Steven of course. But I think love is required to have a family," Elizabeth replied.
"Love? Will you please use your brain," he retorted snobbishly.
"How many orphans are there in the world? Millions," he continued.
"Are we to assume that if there was love they would not be orphans? Of course not. Pregnancy is a biological response of the human beings desire to breed. It is the only thing that man is trained for," he continued.
"But would you not concede that love is the foundation of the happy family," she countered.
"No. Love is meaningless; it is only a sense responsibility that requires humans to take care of their offspring. Love has nothing to do with it," he replied.
"We study it all the time. Dominant genes, recessive genes, and everything else are the things that make yup a child. Not love," he boasted.
"Oh you are full of it," she retorted.
"Oh I can prove it, via an experiment involving human subjects," he replied.
"Are you out of your mind," she replied
"You dare try me," he mocked.
"Steven it is unethical, not to mention illegal to experiment on humans in this manner. Besides the university would never support it," she lectured.
"You know sometimes you are pathetic Lizzy," he snapped.
"Listen if you want to create some kind of warped fantasy in your mind where you play God, then you go right ahead, but you leave me out of it," she said as she stormed from the room.
"I'll show you my love. I show you," he mumbled as he left the room.
Dr Steven Myers was one of the most preeminent geneticists in the university, so when Vince Schmidt a first year grad student who had recently joined his research group was summoned to come to his office, he dutifully complied.
"Come in Vince and please sit down," Myers said.
"Thank you professor Myers," Vince replied as he sat down.
"Vince I'll get right to the point. I assume that you are wondering why I had you take a blood test before joining my group," Myers began.
"Well sir yes," was his response.
"I thought maybe it was to see if I had been exposed to anything that would prohibit me from working with anything in your lab," Vince replied.
"No Vince thats not the reason," Myers replied.
"I did it because I am beginning a new experiment and I need a clean subject," Myers continued.
"Subject sir," Vince asked quizzically.
"Yes Vince. I am working on a theory that surrounds human reproduction. In short I want you to reproduce," Myers stated.
"What," Vince exclaimed.
"Now hold on before you get crazy here just hear me out ok. Good now what I am proposing is for you and another person I have in mind to reproduce and study the genetic traits of the offspring. The reason I chose you is because you have the most compatible genetic make up to the woman that I have picked out," he said.
"But sir you are asking me to do something that is completely unethical as well as morally reprehensible. I should go report you to the dean right now," Vince countered.
"You could do that Vince, but who do you think he will believe. A tenured professor who brings in millions of dollars of funding a year, or a poor graduate student who has a few skeletons in his closet," Myers countered.
"What are you talking about," Vince demanded.
"I know you lied on your application to get in here son. You were convicted of a DUI 4 years ago. Oh I know that you said your friend was driving, but that really doesn't matter does it. In short son you don't agree to this and I'll have you out of here by tomorrow," Myers demanded.
Vince was in turmoil because his dream was to get his PhD and if Myers did what he said he would do, then no university in the world would touch him.
"What is your answer Vince," Myers asked sarcastically
"Yes sir," Vince mumbled
"I'm sorry I didn't hear you," Myers mocked
"Yes Sir," Vince acquiesce.
"Good, and relax Vince you might enjoy this," Myers giggled.
"I can't believe this is happening to me," Vince cried.
"How am I supposed to support a baby on my stipend," he bellowed.
"You don't need to support the child. The woman who will be conceiving has a great desire to have a baby and you will be doing her a favor. As a matter of fact I have a contract here where you will waive all parental responsibilities," Myers said.
"Here look it over, but I had it drawn up by my lawyer and I assure you that it is legal and iron clad," he said as he tossed the copy to Vince.
Vince leafed through the contract until he got bleary eyed, and then finally looking up asked, "who is the woman."
"Well Vince the woman is my wife," Myers replied.
"But sir why don't you just,"
"Because it is an experiment Vince, and that is all you need to know. Rest assured that I love my wife very much," Myers interrupted him.
"But how can you say you love your wife if you want me to sleep with her," Vince countered.
"I want you to impregnate her Vincent. End of story and she is not to know that this is an experiment. If you mention one word of this to her I will have you out of this school so fast your head will spin. Now do I make myself clear," Myers said.
"But sir if all you need is sperm, then why don't I just,"
"No the insemination must be carried out by penetration. It must be completely natural and no artificial means," Myers continued.
"You will perform a physical coupling with my wife, mate with her, and impregnate her. After that is done you are no longer needed in the experiment," Myers said sternly.
"But professor what if feelings develop," Vince began.
"There is no room in science for feelings," Myers countered.
"Now if you will please excuse me I have another appointment. I have taken the liberty of assigning you to my wife's research group for the summer," Myers said.
"You will find all the information inside this folder. Your first group meeting is for 4pm on Tuesday so I suggest you familiarize yourself with her research," Myers said as he handed Vince the folder.
"Oh and remember that this is confidential. You do want that PhD Vince don't you," Myers laughed as he left Vince dumbfounded still sitting in the chair.
Dr Elizabeth Myers slowly rubbed her tired blue eyes as she continued to leaf through the undergraduate student research applications that were on her desk. The 34 year old tenured biology professor was looking for a student to join her genetics research lab, and sadly the pickings this year were very slim.
She was just about to give up on finding any good students, when her husband told her he would send down one of his grad students to help her out. As she gazed through his transcripts she began to feel better about the possibility of finding somebody, and had the departmental secretary schedule a meeting with him later in the day.
She slowly got out of her chair to stretch, and as she did it was easy to see why she was known as the hottest professor on campus. Pure black hair, which was pulled back in a ponytail, framed her beautiful face as she sheepishly gazed at the world through pale blue eyes.
She was dressed in a tight black form fitting turtle neck which clung to her body as if it had been painted on. The fabric of the garment clung tightly against her flat belly and contoured her beautiful c cup breasts.
She was an avid bike rider and accented the turtle neck with a tight black pair of riding pants that shaped her long legs and sensuous hips, while framing her beautiful heart shaped behind. A knock at the door brought her back to reality and she quickly sat back down as the departmental secretary, followed by Vice, walked through the door to greet her.
"Dr Myers this is Vince Schmidt," the secretary said.
"Pleasure to meet you Dr Myers," Vince said as he warmly shook her hand, his eyes momentarily widening at the sight of her beauty.
"Same here Vince. Oh and there is no need for formalities please call me Lizzy," she said as the secretary left and she showed him to a chair.
They talked for a few minutes about basic informalities, until eventually Lizzy came to talk about her research.
"Well my research is in genetics basically and in particular human genetics," she began.
"I am very interested in inherited traits. I am sure you have heard by now that there is some evidence that suggests that there maybe a cancer gene. Well what AI am doing in particular is looking for is to see how we may be able to detect it, and then inhibit it if possible," she said.
