Contrary to common suggestion, women are opting to freeze their eggs not to pursue education or careers but for reasons ‘mostly revolving around women’s lack of stable partnerships with men committed to marriage and parenting’. This is the conclusion of the largest qualitative study so far in elective egg freezing; 150 subjects from four IVF clinics in the USA and three in Israel were interviewed, each of whom had completed at least one cycle of oocyte cryopreservation for social reasons.