From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Apr 23 1999 - 03:21:17 MDT
Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:
> What would really be cool is if we could change genders *temporarily* and
> easily. Would not we all become more insightful beings? We could
> create enough marital harmony that marriage half lives would exceed a
> century, if only, at the impasse of any argument, the couple could both
> temporarily switch gender. I would not wish to *stay* the opposite
> sex, but there is little I would not give to be able to walk a kilometer
> in their mocassins. spike
Although, as in Greg Egan's excellent story _Closer_
(http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_09/09_closr.htm), this might
actually not help. Sometimes insight actually doesn't help the
marriage.
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