so we all agree that the finetimers are extremely puritanical as a culture, right? no way are these people fucking. apart from the ‘never been hugged before’ scene (space babies parallel, i’ll come back to that) and the fact that they seem initially opposed to any kind of in-person interaction, there’s not much textual evidence that points towards it, but it’s quite easy to extrapolate. an isolationist, white-supremacist colony of post-humans thousands of years into the future, genetically engineered to have blue blood (a symbol of aristocracy) running through their veins — it’s not exactly a stretch to suggest that a culture such as theirs would view sex + sexual reproduction as something uncouth, “uncivilised”, taboo, base and “primitive”.
as for babymaking? these people definitely make use of ‘parthenogenesis machines’ as seen in space babies. in fact, they’re 100% ardent supporters of eugenics and probably pre-select the most “desirable” traits for their infants to develop.
the parallels between finetime and gallifrey have been pointed out before (i’ll tag the post in the comments if anyone asks), but here’s another one. i’m quite certain that the residents of finetime, and finetime’s homeworld, create their children with looms looms i’m trying to type something else but it keeps correcting to “looms” those fetus tanks from space babies. you know. another penny in the “ruby was artificially created” theory jar, more doctor/ruby parallels, and a snazzy bit of worldbuilding