I asked the question is an ongoing Forum on Hubpages about procreation between gay couples. As an adult and a health care professional for years, I know that traditionally we need the egg  from a female and the sperm from a male and usually the ideal environment within a female uterus to have fertilization and implantation to occur.

This is the millennium and there has been much talk about cloning and stem cells investigations and research. Most of us have heard about stem cell research in the areas of brain and spinal cord injuries, pancreatic transplants and other essential and politically correct health issues , but there are other stem cell researches that are ongoing and this one may benefit gay and lesbian couples.

This year, scientists have claimed to have created human sperm from adding male skin cells to a special mixture which regressed their cells to embryonic cell state before being transformed into sperm.

The viability of this created sperm for use in In Vitro Fertilization has since been retracted, but the samplings will be examined for other possible uses including treatment for male infertility.

The idea of a "female sperm" is not hopeful as females only Carry the X chromosome. The "Male Egg" is also being studied. It could be possible, theoretically to take the nucleus of a human sperm and place it in an enucleated egg to form a male- egg, which could then be fertilized by another male or the donor male. This could result in the offspring having two fathers or even in self fertilization.

Parthenogenesis is already being undertaken in lizards and turkeys but the viability in humans is not yet successful. In this process, the egg automatically duplicates its  single set od chromosomes to a duplicate set as is found in normal mature adult cells. The embryo then develops into a "normal" animal.

The results in mammals have not yet been successful due to the failure of what the researchers call "imprinting" which is the recognition of the chromosomes from the male by the females  vice versa on fertilization. This imprinting is thought to be the recognition by either set of chromosome that it is itself incomplete without the set from the partner.

Scientists are working on removing the "imprint factor" so future attempts may work.

I know some of this information seem way out, but they are being incubated by educated minds as we speak. Pretending that these are not happening does not change the facts that they are. We are living in a more complexand confusing world today. There are no simple definitions anymore.

The definition of couple, marriage, children and offspring as we know it is changing.The standards and values are changing. What will be the cost to all of us? Who is driving and funding these endeavors, while there are sickness and diseases increasing daily as we tamper with such a delicate issue as the creation of a human life.?

See also my forum question on  procreation in GLBT.http://hubpages.com/question/21030/how-are-gay-men-and-women-to-procreate-are-they-going-to-find-a-lesbian-woman-or-a-gay-man-for-this#answer49254