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[b][i]I[/i][/b] did. But, as an intellectually-honest science-fiction writer, my choices are acknowledge this fact, or to retcon, and I can no longer call myself intellectually honest once I've resorted to retroactive continuity.\n\nEdit: Having said that, today (April 26th, 2014) NPR is doing a story on prepubescent kids desperate to avoid the inevitable - [i]puberty.[/i] And a couple days ago, [url=http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/spack20140419]there was a TED talk about doing just that.[/url] I think the Dutch treatment model might be the answer to the ethical questions I've raised for myself. The 12/16/18 program used there involves blocking hormones (completely reversible) at 12, hormones at 16, and surgery at 18.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Start with a mated pair of lapdragons.  He has gonads frozen when turned, she has banked eggs.

At some point, the keepers (armed with circumspect knowledge that the two want a child) have them bred.  While the two know that their keepers know they want a child, the procedure itself is a carefully kept secret until it's time for the surprise.  They take them to the vet together, who has thawed his testicles and prepared one of her eggs in a capsule-sized "implant".  When they arrive, he's put in a crate in the procedure room to observe; she's led up to the exam table.  The vet lifts her tail, and inserts his probe, depositing the capsule in the blind end of one of her cut-off fallopian tubes where it attaches itself.  They then insert needles into the ductus deferens of both freshly-thawed testicles, and mix the extracted sperm cells with synthetic semen-analogue, which the vet then injects into her with a tube and a syringe.  Then, as he looks on, transfixed, the vet casually dumps his lumps into a blender charged with rubbing alcohol for destruction, and whips them into a sterile froth - as of now, he's *done.*

She enters an induced estrus the next day, and he struggles to keep up with her appetites.  When he has exhausted himself, the keeper family steps in - the husband scratches that itch, and he, the scent of heat still thick in his nostrils, goes down on the wife, who then pleasures herself with his tailtip as he licks at her chin.

She conceives, as expected, and six months later there's an egg.  The two happy lappies go to the vet for the wellness check, and he has a pair of udders by this point - apparently, he'd had them added in preparation.  The kit is microchipped at this visit and goes home with his family.

The kit puts on weight rather fast, and two months later, returns for the next checkup, which is precisely as expected.  As previously discussed, the kit is reclawed in silicone, has his horns tipped, wings clipped, and is desexed, in accordance with then-current medical advice to have such procedures completed by six months.

Kit grows up sterile, growing fey; while his parents groom him to become a lapdragon later in life, they refuse to mark him as such without informed consent, and perhaps, a keeper already lined up.

He grows up to be a submissive top, a "teaser"; he studies computer science, and does eventually mark himself as a pet.  His keeper, a female, eventually becomes a dragon as well, but is never lapped - she likes her position in the relationship.  In spite of this, he continues to work as a code-monkey, hopping from startup to startup; they live happily ever after.

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Families involving lapdragons are going to be inherently, unavoidably ethically messy.  Even when, like in this case, everyone acts in good faith with peoples' best interests in mind, I expect people to squirm.  I did.  But, as an intellectually-honest science-fiction writer, my choices are acknowledge this fact, or to retcon, and I can no longer call myself intellectually honest once I've resorted to retroactive continuity.

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