I'm not very surprised about the results of the last question--our birth gender identity is pounded into us almost every day. We have to separate ourselves to go to the bathroom, the high-school football team versus the volleyball team, seemingly gender-specific toys for babies, etc.

If such a technology were to exist, however, I would think after a few generations had passed, perhaps gender identification would disappear. Of course, one could make the same argument about race because we already have the opportunity to mate with whomever we choose and have had that choice for a while now, yet people still by and large choose to pair up with others from their own race.

I saw the movie, Exchange, the other day that centered around a technology where you could swap bodies with someone over vast distances, regardless of gender or race, and experience life in someone else's body. Interesting little piece of work--another interesting question to ponder is that, if such a technology were to come about, would you swap bodies with your sex partner to experience sex from their perspective? Would you consider this monogamy, and if you were an opposite sex married couple using this technology, how would the Christian right choose to justify their inevitable opposition to such a thing?