“Sex had forgotten why it had been invented. Pleasure wandered alone, like a god without a temple.” The New Eve is a dystopian novel about a future where human reproduction has been taken out of the body and handed over to the state. Set in a future city dominated by clinics, service centers, and rehabilitation camps, birth happens in artificial wombs, families have been abolished, and men and women live in strictly segregated societies that only meet under state supervision. In this world, Adam and Maneki are ordered to take part in the “Mixed Service,” a compulsory program where young men and women are paired for work, sex, and entertainment—but forbidden to feel love. When they fall for each other, their relationship becomes a crime against the social order. The New Eve explores what happens when sex is detached from reproduction, when love is declared an illness, and when the state claims the right to regulate not just bodies, but emotions. The novel asks whether love can survive when it has been scientifically explained away, medically treated, and politically outlawed. Through closely focused scenes interwoven with myths, scientific explanations, propaganda broadcasts, and the internal monologues of characters caught between doctrine and desire, readers are invited to reconsider what, if anything, makes love irreducibly human.