It is my sincere hope that the dilemma Bainee faces will be faced by us all in the relatively near future, so this may be on our horizon. It probably won't take the same form since the Species Immunity Complex, which grants eternal youth thru conjugation, is probably a much greater feat of genetic engineering than merely prolonging youth thru pills. But any technological preservation of youth is going to bring about religious problems. The others are examined in more detail in The Press at Honaseka while this novelette tackles only the sexual aspects of eternal youth and Christianity. Even if we are not using sex as conjugation, we will still find it difficult to stay with the same person century after century, and we will easily get to the point where we forget if we were ever married or not, as one of the characters in this story does.