the rle of woman , as prescribed in the divine command to go forth and multiply was entirely for procreation , and for which the act of sex ( intimately associated as it is with the basest of sins ) had been proscribed , and , using scientific principles inspired by the great prophet saint isaac newton , the necessary task of procreation was now performed by artificial insemination : a process which was sometimes fatal by virtue of how it had to take place in total darkness and without bodily contact .