Could A DNA Tests Find Your Soulmate?
The One: could DNA tests find our soulmate? We study sex and sexuality — and think the idea is ridiculous
The Netflix drama The One centres around a geneticist who invents a new matchmaking service. It uses DNA to help people find their romantic and sexual match: their “one”.“A single strand of hair is all it takes to be matched with the one person you are genetically guaranteed to fall in love with”, says Dr Rebecca Webb (Hannah Ware).
“The moment you meet your match, your one true love, nothing will ever be the same again.”
The One asks what would happen if we could use a DNA database to match “soulmates”. More importantly, it assumes if such technology existed it would be a wholly commercial enterprise — imagining a not-to-distant future where tech (and tech giants) mediate dating, sex...