ABSTRACT
The imaginary and symbolic world of sexuality is very different to that of procreation; they are heterologous. Biotechnologies, therefore, short-circuit the question of sexuality in procreation; accomplishing in a real sense what is imagined in fantasy, that is to say, the absence of a link between sexuality and procreation. In short, to think about the link between sexuality and procreation is all the more difficult when it involves assisted reproductive technology. The more one talks of parenthood the less one leaves a place for sexuality, to what becomes of the couple’s sexuality once they are parents. For it is true that children do not imagine their parents’ sexuality. All the more so as assisted reproductive technology focuses on the disjunction between procreation and sexuality, something that is central to what S. Freud calls infantile sexual theories–those theories that children construct around their interest in knowing where they come from.
