Life, to me, is about people, living creatures, lived experiences – and none are as fundamental as procreation.
According to her, objects present in her work often have dual meanings: For example, the image of the egg alludes to its presence in Latin American rituals and cleansings, as well as procreation, and the appearance of the color red invokes blood and the "flesh and roots of [her] civilization".
He has already stressed that sex is an expression of love as well as a means of procreation.
These arguments hinge on the rather ropey and profoundly Catholic notion that marriage exists solely as a vehicle for procreation.
The lovable, sexy, kind person you knew when you were both childless has now been replaced with a sexless, furious, food-plastered, exhausted wraith who you once – hilariously – believed would be brought closer to you as a result of procreation.
God uses a woman's body as a vessel for procreation.
Define marriage as a union only for procreation, and you thereby annul many marriages.
He expresses his empathy for mothers, who must now see procreation as "a squalid and terrifying exercise of chance".
Schneider argued that the centrality of sexual procreation as a core symbol of kinship in European and Euro-American culture thus underlay most studies of kinship; in other words, anthropologists had brought into the field their own cultural assumptions about what kinship comprised.
It is also the first of the cycle after the opening sequence now described as the Procreation sonnets, although some scholars see it as a part of the Procreation sonnets, as it still addresses the idea of reaching eternal life through the written word, a theme of sonnets 15 17.
