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.
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Why aren’t any women donating??? Men can have babies and women can donate...
Aw, you beat me to it. Turns out the bicycle doesn't have much use for a fish, either.
Consider what this has become through aggressive litigation: to put it crudely, you don't get paid, you don't get laid, and they can come after you. No wonder the donors have become reluctant. CoVid isn't the problem here.
The underlying trope of "good sperm" is, to say the least, more than a little contemptuous. A society that has cut men out of human relationships has forfeited the ability to reproduce, and one that holds that one can become a man (or a woman) purely out of imagination is one that's going to be short a few children, and it deserves to be.
The only reason I clicked on the article was for the comments.
“Good sperm”
Looks like Brad Pitt
Is worth $1.2M minimum
Comes from a pedigreed family
Are they doing 23 and Me eugenics studies into the ethnic background of the donor?
I thought The Sperm Kings was a rebranded sports franchise team name.
I hadn't thought about it, but yes, this would probably result in a deflated number of donors.
>>There’s plenty of USDA Vermont Fancy Grade A over here for the taking.
Yeah, that’s what Don Johnson thought in A Boy And His Dog too until the underground city’s forefathers hooked him up to a milking machine.
Movie trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbU8_zwkfDM
FONZY - Official UK Trailer - Meet The Man With 533 Children
Some one needs to cut back on raw Clams and Oysters.
there are no new ideas
Hehehehe...my wife has never forgiven me for getting her to watch that movie with me...:)
Itself a remake of a 2011 film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5IqNROweUk
Someday every movie will just be the same movie and every trailer will just be the same trailer. Only the names and actors will be different.
Bukkake 13!!!
Starring Anderson Cooper and his pals.
Bones made one at a time...
Didn’t they pump his stomach once? < /urbanlegends >
The problem is that a contract between a mother and a sperm donor is not binding on the child. Child support is a claim by the child. The only thing would be to have legislation that a child does not have the right of support if the father was not married to the mother.
Now, the child does not have any right of support from the mother, who has an absolute right in today's legal environment to abandon the child to foster care, or just abandon entirely by dropping him off at a hospital or firehouse, no questions asked. There might be grounds for fathers to sue for unequal treatment, but it's unlikely that the Supreme Court would have the stomach for the ensuing riots by feminists.
no child consents to abortion and few consent to same sex adoption
Just ewwww.😝
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