Life’s greatest miracle

A play in three acts

Embryonic development can be likened to a performance: it involves a wide range of characters, each of which plays a specific role.

Here’s the script which the Divine Playwright has assembled, setting into motion every human existence, until the day the curtains drop.

Contents

Acts:

Act 1: Copulating | Act 2: Racing | Act 3: Fashioning

Characters:

The soft penis | The hard penis
Sperm #1 (the ‘crooked bastard’) | Sperm #2 (the ‘over-compensator’)
Sperm #3 (the ‘over-achiever’) | Sperm #4 (the ‘right guy’)
The egg (the ‘bachelorette’) | The cilia (the ‘girlfriends’)
The blastocyte | The embryo | The fetus

Act I

‘Love is in the air’, and whether that comes in the form of pheromones, good vibes, or Chanel #9, it all leads to the same result: getting it on.

Besides womens’ magazines, foreplay is also attested to in the animal kingdom

Sexual excitement is associated with various physiological changes, each of which helps to set the…