"Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could soon see human sperm grown in the laboratory."

girlwriteswhat · 2012-01-02T19:02:32+00:00

I can just imagine the cheers and victory dances going on over at RadicalHub over this.

Bluh.

baconOclock · 2012-01-02T19:57:50+00:00

They created sperm now, and will eventually create the female portion of reproduction soon enough. We already birthed a nurse shark in an artificial womb. That being said, still does give you and eerie feeling, doesn't it?

womblefish · 2012-01-02T20:38:43+00:00

But who will pay the child support?

2012-01-02T22:47:39+00:00

Both eggs and sperm have been laboratory created (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1223617/No-men-OR-women-needed-artificial-sperm-eggs-created-time.html). The real problem is the womb, but that's also being worked on at the moment.

uehmik · 2012-01-02T20:38:13+00:00

Once this becomes available, some gold digger is going to secretly gather cells from a rich guy in order to grow lab sperm. Then sue for child support payments. Am I being too pessimistic?

baconOclock · 2012-01-02T17:29:00+00:00

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baconOclock · 2012-01-02T20:38:17+00:00

Is this an issue?

Why is this a bad thing at all? Science is amazing.

Scott2508 · 2012-01-02T23:30:29+00:00

yeah i saw this a few months back with the whole "who needs menz" crap that ensued, i also saw that they now have managed to create artificial wombs for sharks, so is a tech race to see how soon either is fixed .

_Toast · 2012-01-02T18:01:54+00:00

Only infertile men should be able to get this.

2012-01-02T19:23:42+00:00

It's positive for lesbian and infertile couples. Other than that, who cares? A relation encompasses so much more.

Brutal_Antipathy · 2012-01-02T18:44:53+00:00

There goes my facial cream & throat salve market.

escobari · 2012-01-03T13:21:47+00:00

and when artifictional wombs will be out - we will finally have equality. and I'll bet my head on it that then feminists and all the white knight scum will be against those.

LWRellim · 2012-01-03T01:57:30+00:00

I really think that a much more likely creation will be the artificial womb.

Once that is perfected (almost certainly mainly by men), along with genetic control of the gender of the child, there will really no longer be any (procreative) need for females.

And females will themselves push that along -- most feminists abhor the idea of pregnancy, to wit:

Singer’s vision echoed that of feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone, who made a similar argument in 1970 in The Dialectic of Sex. Once the “freeing of women from the tyranny of their reproductive biology” occurred, she said, they could finally reach full equality with men. Source (under "The Meaning of Motherhood" section)

What Ms. Firestone didn't realize, is that at that point in time, women will effectively be obsolete and no longer necessary.

I can easily see that this COULD in fact be a technology that "takes off" -- especially driven by demand in China, where via the "one child" policy there is a significant gender imbalance. In the past in the civilizations (or even tribes) where that occurred, it was common practice to engage in wars, which achieved two things: 1) the "burning off"/destruction of excess males, and 2) the capture and acquiring of conquered females (literally "war brides"). But now, if technology offers another path for men to have children/heirs w/o females... why would those countless millions of Chinese men NOT push to take advantage of it (especially when you add in that the traditional "dowry" and other attendant costs of marrying can easily be used to pay for the tech).

c0mputar · 2012-01-02T19:25:17+00:00

Paternity is about to get really fucking complicated, lol. Besides, who gives a shit about this? This is the future.

valkyrie123 · 2012-01-02T19:29:57+00:00

And the male of the species becomes even more obsolete.

Title	"Scientists have made a major breakthrough that could soon see human sperm grown in the laboratory."
Author	trot-trot
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Comments	87
Date	January 2, 2012 5:14 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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