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luvmijeje:
@fastshipping beautiful analysis.

bukatyne:
Accepted and mainstream in our culture or abroad?

There is nothing new here; sugar mummyism or young boys sleeping with married men did not start today

I know a grandfather whose first child was from a married woman.

As to acceptance; who or What is stopping them?

crackhaus:
Okay maybe I didn't state my point clearly, of course there are dudes who would rather not marry but do so just to have kids.

My point is, this development does not entirely cancel out the desire to have sex with women entirely - it only serves the reproductive aspect of having sex, which is why it will serve the gay community best.

A straight guy will continue having sex with countless women because that's what straight guys do - have sex with women, not for reproduction but for the fun of it.
Now if this straight guy is one of those who can't tolerate the suffocation that comes with marriage, he can always sleep with a woman, get her pregnant, and pay her off for her troubles.

I mean why the hell would I want female eggs harvested from my own skin cells when I'm neither gay nor suffering an erectile dysfunction - I would rather have a fine woman carry my baby full term, then pay her off if I can't stand her...and still get the added bonus of actually having some mind-blowing sex to make it happen.

jmoore:
And the terrorists will use such technology to produce a large army.

Fiction 101

crackhaus:
Yeah I know, they're gay...

Unless you're saying there are straight dudes who only have sex with women for reproduction.

cococandy:
it is simple really. Let the men who feel they do not need women have kids their way. Kids that are totally theirs without any contribution of gametes from a woman.

At least we will be spared the touching stories that come out of loveless marriages.
And they don't have to deal with 'unpleasantness' that comes with associating daily with a woman.

They are happy, we are happy, everyone is happy. Win win win

#in my dreams in know.

MizMyColi:
@TheEmboldened
Only on Nairaland I think
One I do not want to be drawn into, hence my "okay " post before modifying.
The exact motive for my disclaimer earlier.
Lolz.
Plus, I still choose to be a tad bit old fashioned.

crackhaus:
For gay men, good development...for straight dudes, totally unnecessary.
I rather prefer the traditional means of conception, as do most (if not all) men, thank you very much.

cococandy:
Don't call me weird but I think this is wonderful in its own way.

If it ever comes to fruition

MizMyColi:
You garrit
Modified.

MizMyColi:
Okay

MizMyColi:
Lolest

Talk of usurping one of the critical balance(s) of our existence and our world as we know it.

If e nuh be panadol, e fitn't be like panadol.

Hehehehe........Till the end of the century or whenever the "dream" materializes, women rock! women are amazing!


P.S: Mzmycoli's no feminist.
However, she strongly believes in the immutable value of mutual respect among people of all gender, race and orientation.
Tenks.

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MEN WILL SOMEDAY HAVE KIDS WITHOUT WOMEN
BY SAMANTHA ALLEN
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In a 2012 New York Times op-ed, biologist Greg Hampikian declared that “women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction, and men are neither.” The provocative title: “Men, Who Needs Them?” But in light of a new discovery from Cambridge researchers that sperm and eggs could potentially be created from skin cells, there’s no telling what human reproduction will look like by the end of the century or how gender will matter, if at all. Forget everything you know about making babies. In the far future, gay male couples could be having biological offspring without a surrogate and women could be having children in old age.

As the Guardian reports, a team of researchers led by Azim Surani at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge developed “primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs” known as primordial germ cells (PGCS) out of skin tissue. These PGCs are “genetically matched” to the tissue donor, which would hypothetically allow couples suffering from fertility issues to have their own biological offspring instead of resorting to the use of a sperm or egg donor. Men and women who become infertile as a result of chemotherapy could also regain their reproductive capabilities. And because the cells are also “wiped clean” of the epigenetic mutations that occur in our bodies over time, they could provide important insights into age-linked diseases like diabetes or cancer.

But while the reporting on the Cambridge discovery in late December focused on immediate practical applications of this research for both fertility treatments and diseases, the ability to create germ cells from skin tissue has even more far-reaching implications for the future of human reproduction—ones that haven’t yet been fully considered. The possible consequences of this research, ripped straight from the pages of a sci-fi novel, would upend almost all of our traditional cultural understandings of gender and reproduction. By the end of the 21st century, the birds and the bees won’t just be different, they’ll be unrecognizable.

For one, Hampikian’s declaration that men are irrelevant to reproduction may have been decidedly premature. Surani tells the Guardian that women’s skin cells can only produce eggs because they typically lack a Y chromosome—but that skin tissue from men (who have both X and Y chromosomes) could hypothetically produce both eggs and sperm, although such an outcome seems “unlikely” at present.

As Surani wrote in an e-mail to The Daily Beast, “This is technically very difficult. It would require changing normal XY male cells into XO cells, that is removing the Y chromosome to make it possible to make eggs from these cells.”

But in the rare event that human men turn out to be reproductively ambidextrous, as it were, they could gain access to an unprecedented level of reproductive independence. Reports of the “end of men,”turns out, have been greatly exaggerated.


Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014. Ectogenesis—the technical term for the artificial womb—has been in development for over 10 years and futurist Zoltan Istvan predicts that it will be available and used widely within 30 years.

In an e-mail to the Daily Beast, Istvan added that “it’s very possible that natural birthing will start disappearing over the next 25 to 50 years because of advancing technology.”

So far, goat embryos have been carried to term in these artificial wombs but human embryos have only been grown for 10 days due to current restrictions on human cloning. If it turns out that viable sperm and eggs can be produced from male skin tissue, the existence of artificial wombs could hypothetically allow two men to create both kinds of sex cells from their skin, fertilize the egg with the sperm in vitro, and grow the the resulting embryo outside of a human womb. No women would have to be involved at any point. For the first time in human history, reproduction could become a boy’s club. But while we can dream of this possibility, Surani cautions that it’s far too early to imagine it happening anytime soon.

“I should stress that this work is at a very stage and there is much basic work needed first, before even contemplating [that] possibility,” Surani told The Daily Beast.

Still, such an outcome would not be unprecedented in mammals—male and female mice with two biological fathers have already been produced. The process will not work the same with humans, of course, but Surani’s team may have just taken a very early step toward allowing gay men to reproduce without having to rely on a donor or a surrogate. Women—who needs them?

[b]But every action has an equal and opposite reaction and this new reproductive technology will almost certainly change the future for women, too. If the combination of PGC research and artificial womb technology allows men to achieve the same level of reproductive independence as women, it could theoretically allow women to achieve the same reproductive flexibility as men. A fair trade, perhaps.

For men, lifelong reproductive viability is a near certainty but for women, reproduction is a complex process that must be carefully timed. Eggs, after all, are a finite and depletable resource. A woman typically starts her life with millions of eggs but only 400 or so will ever undergo ovulation. To freeze these eggs, a woman must take a regimen of fertility medications and have her eggs harvested through a vaginal probe. The whole process is not only convoluted, it’s expensive, too—one round of treatment can cost up to $15,000 And even if a woman freezes her eggs, she still puts both her body and her baby at risk if she delays childbirth too long. Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.

Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing. As Surani told the Guardian: “It’s remarkably fast. We can now take any embryonic stem cell line and once we have them in the proper conditions, we can make these primordial cells in five to six days.” Turning these PGCs into viable sex cells, as Surani is careful to note, will require further research but if we do eventually succeed in producing eggs from PGCs, skin tissue would almost certainly be easier to collect than eggs. Ovaries—who needs them?
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What this would mean is nothing short of the shattering of the notion of the biological clock. At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb. But in a world where eggs can be created from skin and babies can be grown in artificial wombs, women would theoretically have the option to distance themselves from the nuts and bolts of human reproduction and have babies at virtually any age with no bodily toll. Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how men can participate in reproduction right now.

Judging from current figures, there would be a substantial demand for this option, too. The CDC (PDF) reports that the average age of first-time mothers in the U.S. increased from 21.4 years in 1970 to 25 years in 2006. Over that time period, the number of women giving birth at age 35 or over increased nearly eight times, from 1 out of every 100 first births to 1 out of every 12 first births. The trend is particularly concentrated in the coastal states where women are wealthier, more educated, and more liberal. But if women could behave like, well, men when it comes to reproduction, they would no longer have to face the familiar devil’s bargain between career and childbirth. The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.

But while this technology would physically allow women to bear children with little interruption to their career or education, what happens after childbirth would still be determined by social attitudes. The pesky thing about babies is that someone has to take care of them once they’re born. Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change. Women in the U.S., for example, still bear the brunt of housework and childrearing even though they are now also primary breadwinners in nearly half of all households. In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men. For the first time, the potential for men and women to play flexible and equal roles in reproduction seems possible in the future but that possibility hinges on the gendered distribution of labor within American households.

In the two years since Hampikian’s New York Times op-ed about men’s reproductive irrelevance, the distant future of human reproduction has undergone a monumental shift. If sex cells come from skin and babies come from tanks, so much of our gendered reproductive vocabulary becomes irrelevant: pregnancy, copulation, surrogate, fertility, donor.

All of these far future speculations, of course, depend on a series of “ifs.” It will be years before we know if PGCs can indeed be turned into viable sex cells, if male skin tissue can be used to create an egg, and if human babies can safely be carried to term in an artificial womb. But as reproductive technology becomes more sophisticated and more removed from the human body, one thing’s for certain: the rulebook for reproduction will need to be completely rewritten. The end of conventional childbirth might only be a matter of time.

TV01:
So many insights and pointers as to why "sexual equality" will be disastrous for women.

Historically, men have placed a high value on intimacy with women and even gone to war over it. Now women are paying men? Laughable, but quite tragic. A singular lesson in how to take something of great worth and render it all but valueless.

I see lots of women thinking that financial independance somehow levels the playing field. Nope, because men do not typically seek out women for financial reasons. And the money they acquire does not necessarily secure them the men they desire or the happiness they want.

I maintain, that when women fully realise how feminism compromises the feminine imperative, they will of themselves war against it. Sharp and high status men will continue to enjoy the ride - and pick of the best quality women.

An unfolding story, but some of us can prety much forsee the end.


TV

Jaymaestro:
Even at its manga end , Naruto is still wrapped up in fabrication and confusion .

chaircover:
Is this not the same thing sugar mummys do with gigolos?
This has been around since 1913
Theve only jazzed it up and given it a fancy name.

coogar:
you mean you lost interest watching those gorgeous ladies in their undies?

Timbuktou:
Na the way my brother.
Lose interest how? Intensity is the name of the game na. Don't tell me you're for them to be all womanly and stuff.

Timbuktou:
Coogar, you're irredeemable ;DNothing makes me happier than a credit alert, my brother. And this was right there for the plucking. Oh, well, better late than never.

Timbuktou:
Hmm, very good idea. Frustrated women, everywhere. Why didn't I think of this before?

[size=18pt]Career-Minded Women Turn to Male Escorts For No-Strings Fun and (Maybe) Sex[/size]

Yes, hiring an “escort” is no longer just a man’s game. These days, plenty of women are turning to online sites for no-frills male companionship.
It’s not just for men anymore. Women want a hot, young thing to parade around on their arm, too.
Sure, career-oriented women have less time for romance, but that doesn’t stop their desire for sex. And in an environment where time is money, hooking up with an escort just might be the sensible thing to do. I mean, who really has time to hang out in a bar sipping cosmos watching the hours tick by in the hopes of a decent one-night stand? Not most. Thanks to a service aimed specifically at women, there’s no need to buy overpriced drinks in the hopes of landing some male companionship. Just rent a stud instead.

The escort site Cowboys4Angels peddles chiseled, hot-bodied men and their smoldering model looks to women willing to pay. According to the site, “My Cowboys are attentive, respectful and protective. They pay special attention to the client as if she is the only one that matters to him in the world, building a genuine rapport.”
Seriously, don’t roll your eyes. This is not a secretly gay escort site, according to owner and founder Garren James, who says he’s constantly turning down male clients. “You can Google gay male escort and you’ll find hundreds,” says James. “I figured a woman would not want to hire a man that she thought was just with a man the night before, so I decided to make it exclusively for women.”

“I think it’s chauvinistic to say women aren’t able to, or can’t afford to, or as some would say, women don’t have the balls to do it.”
It wasn’t always easy, either. People had to adjust to the idea of women hiring men. It shouldn’t be a crazy concept, but it is. “I think it’s chauvinistic to say women aren’t able to, or can’t afford to, or as some would say, women don’t have the balls to do it,” says James. “It’s weird how it’s okay for a gay man to hire a gay guy, or for a man to hire a woman, but for a woman to hire a man, oh that’s gotta be fake, because they don’t want to accept it.”

According to James, by 2014 his business did close to $2 million in overall sales. But it wasn’t always so. “Our first few months we had maybe one client and then we went on The Tyra Banks Show,” says James. “It wasn’t like we were an instant success, but we were the number one Google-searched site in the nation the day the show aired. It spread like wildfire from there.”

Even before Showtime debuted Gigolos, the reality show featuring several men from Cowboys4Angels, there was HBO’s Hung. The critically acclaimed series, which debuted back in 2009, was groundbreaking—bringing male escorting from dark corners of the Internet to the mainstream. Gigolos later capitalized on the newfound public interest, and together these shows have moved the conversation from bachelorette parties to the dinner table. Paying for sex is, of course, one of the world’s oldest professions, and up until now it’s been a male-dominated tradition. In the 21st century women are earning their equality every step of the way… including the bedroom.

Top 6 reasons women might prefer a male escort:

- Satisfaction guaranteed – some hot dates can be incredibly selfish lovers but rest assured with an escort their job is to please (within reason, of course).
- No need to fake it - SHHH… sometimes when it’s boring, faking it means it’ll be over sooner. (It’s our dirty little secret)
- Because dating can be exhausting – establishing a new relationship can be time consuming and mentally taxing, so if you’d rather pay more attention to your blossoming career than a man, an escort might be the way to go.
- One-night stands aren’t always as fun as they should be
- Because sometimes a woman just wants to have sex, no strings attached – men can be just as clingy as women, wanting to follow up the sexy encounter with cuddles, kisses, and promises of dates you don’t want.
- Safer than hooking up with a stranger – this guy has been pre-screened. Yay! Breathe a sigh of relief. You won’t have to worry about whether or not he has a violent past. Escorts at the agency must pass a background check.

An escort who goes by the name of “Tommy” has experienced a wide variety of female clients. He finds they come to him with assorted needs. One woman wanted to make her boyfriend jealous, and another was a burn victim with a body covered in scars that just wanted to feel beautiful. “I feel like I’m helping women out. Sometimes I feel more like a therapist than the stereotype of a male escort,” says Tommy.

Tommy describes himself as more of the “boyfriend experience.” And with regular clients that see him at least twice a month, relationships inevitably form. But while it feels personable, it is always professional. “A lot of people don’t understand why women would pay money for it,” says Tommy. “At the end of the day, just like men, they want to be seen with someone attractive to validate them, make them feel better about themselves.”

Of course with this service, women aren’t paying for sex. That would be illegal. Women are paying for male companionship and whatever happens between two consenting adults on a paid date, well, that’s up to them. Owner Garren James elucidates. “When a client calls the agency, if they are requesting some sort of sexual service then, unfortunately, I cannot book that appointment. We’re selling the men’s companionship,” says James. “Now if there is some sort of spark on that date then they’re not necessarily breaking any law. For example, if you hired a guy to clean your pool and while he was cleaning your pool you walked outside and thought he was hot and he liked you back. If you guys started kissing or something romantic happened, well, that’s not breaking the law, you contracted that guy to clean your pool. It’s not like you offered him money to have sex. Now that would be breaking the law.”

In the end, men and women aren’t that different. Sex is not a craving; it’s a biological need. And in today’s world, women aren’t too shy to make the first move, and want to be pleasured just as much as men do. And now they can be.

Baddestguyp:
oh. btw, check out this game...aralon sword and shadow...its not online tho but it has an open world just like order and chaos online, only that its a single player based rpg. u fit loss for the game sef