The parents of the preceding generation had taken galactic sex-selection technologies much too far in their foolish passion for male heirs, and the v… - Lois McMaster Bujold

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The parents of the preceding generation had taken galactic sex-selection technologies much too far in their foolish passion for male heirs, and the very sons they’d so cherished—Miles’s contemporaries—had inherited the resulting mating mess. Go to any formal party in Vorbarr Sultana these days, and you could practically taste the damned testosterone in the air, volatilized by the alcohol no doubt.