Posted on 01/08/2021 9:46:16 AM PST by karpov
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If you are one of the roughly 141 million Americans whose body produces sperm, the substance likely seems abundant and cheap. For the rest of us, it is very much neither.
That has always been true, especially if one is discerning. But now, the coronavirus pandemic is creating a shortage, sperm banks and fertility clinics said. Men have stopped going in as much to donate, even as demand has stayed steady at some banks and increased rapidly at others.
“We’ve been breaking records for sales since June worldwide not just in the U.S. — we’ve broken our records for England, Australia and Canada,” said Angelo Allard, the compliance supervisor of Seattle Sperm Bank, one of the country’s biggest sperm banks. He said his company was selling 20 percent more sperm now than a year earlier, even as supplies dwindled.
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And so in the capitalist crunch, Sperm World — the world of people buying and selling sperm — has gotten wild. Donors are going direct to customers. They meet with prospective mothers-to-be in Airbnbs for an afternoon handoff; Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members have sprung up.
The reason I know this at all is simple enough: I am 32 years old, partnered to a woman, stuck at home and in the market for the finest sperm I can get.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
>>Men have stopped going in as much to donate, even as demand has stayed steady at some banks and increased rapidly at others.
Anonymity is gone. The kids can seek you out later.
I blame Anderson Cooper and his ilk guzzling it like there’s no tomorrow
Has she tried calling David Crosby?
My inner 13 year old too!😀
“A woman who only sleeps with another woman will not get pregnant. How can this problem be solved?”
They should get in touch with Laz. (-:
>>60 percent are gay women, and 20 percent are single moms by choice
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
80 percent of the buyers are feminists.
Or that someone else will need something to do with his time starting January 20 at noon. You might get a baby with an orange comb-over. I see a lot of liberal women deciding to get even more cats instead.
Ewwww.
>>60 percent are gay women, and 20 percent are single moms by choice
I wonder how many of these womyn abort the babies if they are male.
Sorry, NYT, but most pregnancies don’t result from sperm that came from a sperm bank.
We need to go back to having a man not be obligated to provide child support to children whose mothers they were not married to.
In 1973 The Supreme Court declared that it was unconstitutional to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate children, thus eliminating an important reason for marriage. The results are visible since then.
I, too, caught that. I say this about ten times a day these days: “The world has gone crazy.”
Welcome to FR... (again?)
And this is by contactual agreement that they are obtaining the donation “without claim”.
“...and in the market for the finest sperm I can get...”
There’s plenty of USDA Vermont Fancy Grade A over here for the taking.😎
Well if your relationship is natural, there would be no need to bring in the genetic material of an outsider in order to reproduce...
Can't imagine being a child and this being the legacy of how you came to be in the world. So selfish.
“All the poor young men...”
Alas, so many of these “poor young men” are pathetic tight jean wearing millenial democrat losers it’s no wonder women are turning to each other.
“We have a combination of Ancient Rome and pre-Revolutionary War going on at the same time.”
There is no historical precedent for the clusterF we’ve got going on now.
“The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand..”
That’s odd...there’s plenty of supply.
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