The reason this comes up is because I was reading Imp1 comments and replies to them and he’s mentioned multiple times before that he believes that the actual answer to a lot of this is making artificial wombs so that you can cut out women from making kids and relationships with women have to be about something else. That would mean that since women can't use their wombs as a bargaining tool, their intellect and personalities have to be what keeps a man interested, at least imo, and I can see why it would appeal to him, but are they even reasonable?
I haven't done the research myself and thought it would be more fun to have a discussion over it, but still, I’m just curious as to how the tech works if at all. I've seen things where the tech is being “suppressed” (hidden from the public like a lot of current tech we use today was during the Cold War, ala the internet), but is that true, or not? It's just genuinely an interesting topic to me.
Even if they manage to actually perfect this technology, you'd still need ova from actual women to make it work.
Make no mistake, as soon as a functioning artificial womb was released onto the market, anonymity and decision-making powers over the donation of reproductive material would suddenly become a major concern in a way that it's never been for sperm donations for some reason.
If a man actually managed to secure an ovum for an artificial womb to give himself a child, as soon as the woman who donated that egg started to have second thoughts, the legal precedent would immediately be set allowing her to take that child off his hands with no recourse left to him.
Bottom line: it's a fantasy.