User blog comment:Matt-256/Spartan sex drive/@comment-1819700-20100905174036

I think most of us are forgetting is that the Spartan's grew up, from the age of 6 onwards, in a military enviroment with military rules to live by. In modern armies (well, the British Armed Forces anyway) males and females aren't allowed to touch. I'm not sure what this would translate to 500 years in the future as it would seem the UNSC would accept both genders.