Love & Passion Quote by David Cronenberg

Cronenberg is doing what he always does: treating the body as both technology and haunted house, then calmly pointing out the exit signs have moved. The line lands like a provocation, but its real charge is philosophical. If sex is no longer biologically necessary, it stops being destiny and becomes something closer to art, appetite, ritual, or power game. That’s liberating on paper and deeply unsettling in practice, which is exactly the zone Cronenberg likes to inhabit.

The intent isn’t to celebrate IVF as a gadget; it’s to mark a civilizational switch. For most of human time, reproduction chained intimacy to survival. He’s noting that the chain has been cut, and once a basic function detaches from the body, institutions rush in to manage the gap: markets, laws, clinics, ideologies. “Extraordinary things” is deliberately vague, because the possibilities are simultaneously utopian and nightmarish. You can hear the subtext: extraordinary for whom, and at what cost?

In Cronenberg’s broader context - from Videodrome to The Fly to Dead Ringers - “progress” is never clean. It mutates desire, redraws identity, and invites new forms of control. The quote also reads as a warning about how quickly we’ll rebrand old anxieties: fears about family, gender roles, consent, and ownership of bodies will migrate into debates about embryos, surrogacy contracts, genetic screening, and access. He’s not predicting a sexless future; he’s pointing to a future where sex has to justify itself on new terms, and where reproduction becomes one more site of cultural engineering.