ABSTRACT
In the film Not Suitable for Children (2012), Jonah, played by Ryan Kwanten, learns that he has one month until he becomes infertile due to testicular cancer. Realizing the pending impossibility of fatherhood, Jonah sets out to procreate as much as possible. In this chapter, I consider the diagnosis and the reaction to it, and frame this in terms of discourse surrounding genealogy and futurity. What does it mean to be told one will become infertile? What sorts of myths and ideas are foreclosed? This chapter draws on the psychoanalytic work of Adam Phillips, particularly his work on “missing out” and the “unlived life.”
