For prospective parents in the market for a blonde-haired, blue-eyed tot, Danish sperm

NY Newsday ^ | 6/5/05 | JAMIE TALAN

[sharktrager]

Gay? Try broke. He's a college kid selling his sperm. It's not new, nor, frankly, is it newsworthy.

[muawiyah]

Look, those people were all Germans ~ last thing they'd agree to is a world full of Danes.

[Squantos]

I understand that all these qualities usually skip a generation.

Yeah, instead of a Viking she'll get a Rastafarian.......:o)

[muawiyah]

Fair skin is recessive?

How about gray eyes?

Curly hair?

I even had a friend whose people were Scanderhoovian all the way back and he had KINKY hair. (He's was not alone in this world).

I'm still trying to figure out the recessive part for skin ~

[L98Fiero]

"A law student, the 28-year-old describes himself as easygoing, a creative perfectionist with a good wit, an extrovert."

They forgot "arrogant narcissist" and "Aryan supremacist".

[conservative cat]

This may seem really tasteless, but I have to give credit to the Nazis for apparently encouraging breastfeeding.

[SIDENET]

LOL!

[xJones]

Scandinavian Cryobank sells sperm in 40 different countries, charging the U.S. equivalent of $275 for one injection of potent sperm delivered in a sealed plastic straw. On average, across all age groups, it can take up to 13 straws to conceive a child. In Denmark, there are 250 donors. Some begin donating in their 20s. The cutoff age is 40. The average donor continues in the program for five years, and can provide sperm several times a week. They get about $80 a straw.

I assume they don't mean the "cutoff date" literally. And $80 per strawful doesn't sound like a hell of a complement....

If their sperm doesn't sell, they are removed from the donor pool, Rodgaard said. He added that each donor on average is responsible for conceiving 20 to 30 babies throughout the world.

I don't understand egg or sperm donors to completely unknown parents. For all the donors care, their kids could be born as less than the piece of perfection the buyer parent expected, and the buyer decides she/he has a human version of an unwanted "lemon". And it's possible that a parent with such dreams might be a little weird in the first place.

There's more to procreation than just donating the sperm or egg.

[wagglebee]

I don't know, $80 a straw. If I had known this back in my teenage days, I would have made a fortune.

[SIDENET]

This may seem really tasteless, but I have to give credit to the Nazis for apparently encouraging breastfeeding.

Taken out of context, this sentence is hilariously odd. Heck, it's kinda odd even in context. You should use it as a tagline. LOL.

:-)

No offense intended. It just struck me as funny.

[grey_whiskers]

Ladies, why settle for the bottled when you can have the draft?

Do you mean "Fountain Fresh" ?

Cheers!

[xJones]

I don't know, $80 a straw. If I had known this back in my teenage days, I would have made a fortune.

Wow, that's a real, real ......interesting thought. Just imagine thousands of baby wagglebees.:)

[Polybius]

I don't understand egg or sperm donors to completely unknown parents. For all the donors care, their kids could be born as less than the piece of perfection the buyer parent expected, and the buyer decides she/he has a human version of an unwanted "lemon". And it's possible that a parent with such dreams might be a little weird in the first place.

When I was in med school, "donating" was a popular way for male med students to earn extra cash. It seems that "med student sperm" was sought after.

Even though I was cash strapped in those days, I never donated as I could not imagine never seeing my son or daughter or having them raised by a stranger.

[xJones]

No offense intended. It just struck me as funny.

I saw that too, but you didn't catch me being tacky about tasteless breast feeding.:)

[Ronaldus Magnus]

The problem of corporate eugenics like this may end up being solved by an activist judiciary. It would only take one renegade judge to set a precedent by nullifying a sperm seller's immunity from paternity liability. It isn't the child's fault that their mother foolishly signed away the child's right to fair child support. Break just one of these contracts and these prostitute masturbaters will be buying back their unsold DNA at ten times the market rate!

[xJones]

Even though I was cash strapped in those days, I never donated as I could not imagine never seeing my son or daughter or having them raised by a stranger.

That's the deal, you would have no idea what kind of 'mother' had bought your sample or how your son/daughter was being raised. The whole thing's too inhumanely weird and the child would be expected to be a very high achiever or else the buyer might be disappointed: "I bought the wrong straw."

[jocon307]

Brown trumps blonde/blue in skin and hair, I believe. Not sure but I think curly is dominant in hair, but I think that would mean any sort of a wave to the hair. As opposed to the dead straight hair like Oriental people have.

Of course, none of this is black and white, it is all really gray. As the French say (in a slightly different context): all cats are gray in the dark.

[conservative cat]

No offense taken! I found it funny to even be writing it down...

[wagglebee]

Wow, that's a real, real ......interesting thought. Just imagine thousands of baby wagglebees.:)

Kinda scary, huh?