Sperm Creation: No Men Required

Researchers have found ways to make sperm without men. This comes as no surprise to most men. We men have known for a long time that researchers are trying to find ways to make us obsolete.

In this situation researchers were able to create sperm from embrionic stem cells.
The sperm is considered to be of low quality in these early efforts but with more research could generate higher quality sperm capable of conceiving a healthy human baby.

This is a medical advance that is worthy of note, however as a society we have to ask ourselves about the use of a technology that comes so close to our humanity.
Its not that the technology is un-natural. Too the contrary many other species have the capability given the right circumstances to take on the role of a male and produce sperm to create offspring and propogate the species.

The question we must ask is whether or not we as people are ready to live in a society where roles of male and female partnership are scientifically not abosolutely necessary. Can our psyche's survive such a scenario? Not just the men and our ego's but also women. If the society evolves to a point where a partnership between two people is unnecessary, what does that mean for our future? When we can survive as a species without having to learn to cooperate with at least one other human, will we take the time to generally get along with masses or groups of other humans? Will this push us apart even further?