Thread:Alika87/@comment-25404524-20160905084329/@comment-24577221-20160905164447

All monsters are hermaphrodites? I hadn't considered that possibility. I assumed it was just some sort of genetic manipulation device.

Lois McMaster Bujold has written a series of science fiction novels, the "Vorkosigan Saga". One technological advance in that series which has many consequences is the "uterine replicator", an artificial uterus which allows human babies to be brought to term without the need for pregnancy. Associated technologies include cloning, and recombination of genetic material from any two (or even more) people. I figured that the Breeding Structure was something like that.