# If you bone your clone **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805 "2014-09-07T23:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/21 "2014-09-08T16:56:04Z")
> [@](#): > > **If you bone your clone** Gad, I do love the work of Lerner and Loewe. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/22 "2014-09-08T17:17:25Z")
If you bone your clone, have you had sex on your own? Because you sure weren’t alone. If you both wanted it, would you be beside yourself with lust? ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/23 "2014-09-08T17:17:43Z")
imho, this brings up an interesting point regarding these type of teleporters. in the past, no small amount of people have indicated that they are more than willing to use teleporters; yet here we are, with only a few viewing it as masturbation. if you’re not comfortable enough to view that copy as yourself and give, well, yourself a little massage; why are you comfortable enough to give up your own life for it? ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/24 "2014-09-08T17:23:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There is no way I am boning my clone, or he me. So I don’t care. For the rest of you, there must be consideration for the possibility that the clone is seen as a newborn child and you have committed statuatory rape. However if you make two clones of yourself and they do it will become a matter for the juvenile courts. Clearly the future is a very complicated place. That’s an interesting point. Are there any law review articles examining how the legal age of a human clone would be defined if such a clone were ever created? Also, who would go on the birth certificate as the clone’s parents? The cloned person’s parents? The DNA donor/clonee themself? Would they be legally classified as a foundling/orphan with no known parents? If a cloned person dies intestate, would the person they were cloned from be eligible to inherit? What about the other way around? Does my clone have a claim to my estate? What if my devious ex-wife makes a clone of me against my will in order to swipe what would have been her share of my estate? This is one of the “SF” law scenarios that is probably closest to actually happening - the resistance is now more political and social than a lack of science and technology development/capacity. After all, we can clone sheep and sheep aren’t that different from humans… ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/25 "2014-09-08T21:31:28Z")
If you’re going around cloning people anyway, why not make your clone the opposite sex? The Sensuous Dirty Old Man already considered these weighty matters 40 years ago: [http://members.tripod.com/~bardic\_circle/aclone.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~bardic_circle/aclone.htm) [QUOTE=Isaac Asimov] Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it’s grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex. Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I’m alone With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805/26 "2014-09-08T21:37:07Z")
I wanted to , but I didn’t. Nothing happened. Nothing. Shit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-bone-your-clone/697805.md?page=1)