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jmowreader

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27. Read the novel and you'll understand WHY there was a fertility crisis

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 01:02 PM

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Some time before the Rise of Gilead there was a nuclear war. These men came back to have families and found that they couldn't get their wives pregnant. There were two ways they could have gone.

Way 1: All the men take fertility tests and learn the radiation from the nuclear war has rendered them all sterile. They find a bunch of healthy, attractive men who didn't go to the war and match them to specific Commanders: Commander Joe is 6'1" with brown hair, brown eyes and olive skin, so Savior Frank who is also tall with the same coloration as Commander Joe becomes his sperm donor in the hopes the children would look enough like Commander Joe to be believable.

Way 2: what they did, which didn't work because if you're sterile you're not getting anyone pregnant.

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