Men No Longer Needed to Create Sperm

This is going too far, IMO. I mean - sure - it may just be a scientific experiment, but... wouldn't all that money and time be better spent solving genetic disorders, like Down's or Cystic Fibrosis, rather than modifying genes and cells so that you don't need men. I am a firm believer of scientology - they are making amazing progress - but something like this is just purely unnecessary. Sure, human nature means that we are curious - and to experiment - but seriously. This isn't needed, and I doubt that this research will do anything to solve the world's problems.

To all the commenters: Equality between the sexes is non-existant. It is at an equilibrium. Whilst men do have an advantage in some areas, women have advantages in other areas. I think it is becoming more equal, however.

can a woman make a baby with her and her female lover egg add with male sperm to??

Kinda crazy how a silly little tall tale that I started way back in highschool is now a reality.

The future will have no men. Women will grow weary of men and shortly after learning to clone (which is essentially what they're doing, whether they use so many words or not). And soon enough the age of Man will be no more.

Men will be obsolete.

This could just be classes as a new form of incest. Would every woman really want to technically be gay. There are many woman in the world that would go absolutely crazy without sex too.

Great break through but surely it just undermines the human race and kicks it in the bollocks ?

Carpet munching sperm?

we males, even with our puny, missing a leg Y chromosome compared to the female's diesel, more bigger and stronger chromosome XX and our fewer genes and our minor part of procreation, we males still are valuable.

@Sam: How to put it... WHAT?

I'm not sure you quite understand the process. Or incest, or homosexuality. And nobody's actually suggesting we get rid of men... well, except Germaine Greer.

... & how many men did it take to create this female sperm? ;-)

I'll let my girlfriend know immediately that she can go f herself.

Excellent. We can all got out male tubes tied, and maybe throw out condoms. VICTORY!!!
You just know that was why they were doing this research.

The fact that the sperm is human does not mean that is of male sex and that they can make it all the time.
Eve was formed from Adam, if Eve can make Adam now...
she does not need either Adam or God's opinion on how to run the world (because she ignored the natural design).
What do you think?

Jorgevan007

Well, I hope early trials go horribly wrong. This is depraved and can only have bad results.

The fact that the sperm is human does not mean that is of male sex and that they can make it all the time.
Eve was formed from Adam, if Eve can make Adam now…
she does not need either Adam or God’s opinion on how to run the world (because she ignored the natural design).
What do you think?
Jorgevan007

Perhaps. Or perhaps they're fictional characters with no actual relevance here.

Whew! I'm so relieved! What a hassle it's been, over the years, to have to keep producing those damned little wigglers! Yay! I'm free! I'm free! Free at last!

What about Sperm Whales, though? Does this new rule affect them?

Wouldn't these folks be better off working on a cure for cancer or something?

The fact that the sperm is human does not mean that is of male sex and that they can make it all the time.
Eve was formed from Adam, if Eve can make Adam now…
she does not need either Adam or God’s opinion on how to run the world (because she ignored the natural design).
What do you think?
Jorgevan007

Perhaps. Or perhaps they’re fictional characters with no actual relevance here.

I think your a fictitious character with no relevance here either.

Well, I guess this will put me out of a job with the wife.

The fact that the sperm is human does not mean that is of male sex and that they can make it all the time.
Eve was formed from Adam, if Eve can make Adam now…
she does not need either Adam or God’s opinion on how to run the world (because she ignored the natural design).
What do you think?
Jorgevan007

Perhaps. Or perhaps they’re fictional characters with no actual relevance here.

I think your a fictitious character with no relevance here either.

You are the fictitous one here.

I think men and womena re created equally, however the world they grow up at this moment is not.

This article scared me at first, that my existence is no longer needed, but now i've come to realise that i have lots to offer :)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO spring break! time to get drunk and fuck some hot puzzy

lmao at the girl friend go F her self comment..

It's amazing what a article will do to society, when you want to change the exsistense of human nature, if you look in between the lines, it says this was just AN EXPERIMENT. It doesn't meant that the federal government will give it's blessing on this but, I know if the GLBT can have that chance to give it a go, the MEN AND WOMEN all over would be upset that such a thing could exist,so since it really is still in the study stage everyone chill...

Just an observation that, since the male carries the Y chromosome which leads to male offspring, only female offspring can come of this process. Therefore if a male child is desired, male genetic material must be involved.

What the fuck kind of mindless scientists put together this ingenious plan? I mean seriously, all that formal education and you can't see the possible (very radical) consequences of researching some worthless technology like this?

Do we not have enough parent-less babies as it is? It's called adoption!

Well, I hope early trials go horribly wrong. This is depraved and can only have bad results.

troll found

I'm buying stocks in a business that makes strap-ons

Next I guess they will try to impregnate men to have babies.

i guess in science tho there is no such thing as god , they have to try to find some type of scientific explanation for everything. No such thing as morals no concept of gay or lesbian .....

just science and theory and another way to make a dollar....

to steveO
notice as well that while this will eventually, after further research beable to produce viable sperm, if there is ever a global even that makes men very very scarce (a star trek voyager episode, one of the later foundation series books by asamof, other works of fiction) the male gender will essentially cease to exist. without at least one male sperm cell to produce another male, once the last man is gone, the human race will consist entirely of women.
for some reason this makes me feel a bit more expendable than i am comfortable with. some times i think that research for the pure sake of research... is not so good.

ITS FAKE!!!! I WENT TO THE UNIVERSITIES MAIN WEBSITE AND NOTHING WAS POSTED ON THIS TOPIC... CHECK THEIR PRESS ARCHIVES.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/archive.phtml?y=2008

does that mean that only 'x' chromosomes are supplied? Are we doomed to a future with only women? There goes heavy metal, there goes contact sports, there goes interesting political opinion... I would sigh out loud if my wife wasn't looking over my shoulder with a threatening gaze.

It's always sad to see a man attempting self-deprecating humor and, failing to make an actual joke, belies his own self-loathing nature.

Wake up, buddy. Women are proud to be women, and you've got no excuse to not pride yourself on your excess body hair and superior thinking abilities, what with women having smaller brains. It's simple science, really.

Whose gonna provide the necessary logic to survive?

SteveO, it wouldn't take much more genetic fiddling to hack an X into a Y if they really wanted to.

I for one welcome our new female overloards.

It would be far easier to have XX people with male phenotypic reproductive organs producing double XX sperm which themselves would have an equal ratio of females with male characteristics to females with female characteristics. I think that would make us men feel better about having ourselves essentially wiped out because it's really only our penises that we worry about. ;P

does this mean a women could impregnate herself?.....weird

Just an observation that, since the male carries the Y chromosome which leads to male offspring, only female offspring can come of this process. Therefore if a male child is desired, male genetic material must be involved.

But the fact is, males are not needed at all for mankind's continuity. I guess we should change it womankind now.

The next step is to make females non-relevant too through cloning. We will have a bunch of Data's from Star Trek running around someday.

josh, check the telegraph and new scientist. i think you'll find it was mentioned.

Our last and only function in this life has been usurped.

We can make war, but who needs that?

We aren't needed to kill people, we aren't needed to make babies, what's left?

Oh, right, someone has to build the house and maintain the car...

*Whew* that was close!

So if they develop some thing which can make men get pregnant from men (gross), then women won't need men and men won't need woman. Woman can go back to Venus and men to Mars and we wouldn't have to see each other any more and deal with each other's, em... 'flaws'.

Great! NOOOOOOOT! No more oogling over the opposite sex, that sucks.

While ppl praise their own superior intelligence at what they can do, we will incomprehensibley dig our own grave.

"But the fact is, males are not needed at all for mankind’s continuity"

But whose gonna park the car when they go in for hospital check ups?

sounds like Children of Men, only thing its the other way around

It's interesting how hostile and antagonistic the male reactions are to this. I believe that, if the reverse were possible (men could carry babies and sperm could be modified to work as eggs), women would be pretty happy not to have to be the only ones enduring the difficulties of child-bearing.

If this sort of thing really were possible, I'm guessing the party might be over for many men and all their self-centered, selfish, and arrogant behavior might diminish. Honestly, all the pompous talk about how men are more logical and capable in so many ways seriously smacks of a desperate attempt to both show how "important" they are to the world order and to impotently flex some sort of muscle which they hope women lack and therefore show that they're so relevant.

My husband is a dream and I wouldn't trade him for anything, but he's nothing like the males commenting here and wouldn't be intimidated by this sort of news. He actually has value outside his pants as well as inside. That makes him a very rare and valuable commodity compared to the vast majority of his gender.

Shari, your husband can't be much of a man if he lives with a bitter name-caller like you.

Shari, the reason some guys have issues with this isn't that we're arrogant or selfish or self-centered or anything else.
It's that the pendulum has swung so far in favor of the men-hating feminists that for some it feels like being a man is under assault.
Watch a tv sitcom - the men are usually portrayed as bumbling incompetant fools.
Read some statistics about divorce issues - there are men out there getting royally f**ked just because they're men.
Hell, I came across a webpage the other day that described an actual court case (among other similar ones) where it was, in effect, a woman raping an unconscious, drunk guy who didn't have the faintest idea what had happened (ie: no consent was given or even able to be given).... until she took him to court for child support. And WON! The 'moral' of the webpage? (which was full of documentation, btw, wasn't just bs.) That regardless of what condition the man was in, even if he was underage(!), and regardless of the funny-business the woman went to in order to impregnate herself, men are liable for whatever happens to their sperm.

now that they can breed without us, they'll have no problem killing us.

DON'T VOTE FOR CLINTON!!

look at what some of the girls have said.

they've wanted to kill us for YEARS.

That was the only excuse they had to keep us around.

If they put a woman in office, the next holocaust WILL occur.

Gauranteed.

see you in the gas chamber bros

ye we soon will be irrelevant to the survival of species, until they discover a way to create a female egg and make it grow outside her body, in which case females will be no longer necessary to survival of human species too. which is a good thing. even if we'all get killed, robots may still create humans.

If they are able to create sperm cells, it will not be long before they are able to create eggs as well.

I don't see a need for this at this moment. Maybe at some point later when there are only females left on ths planet.