I was watching this program in Life Network called “Out in the City“, where they feature gay couples who have come out of the closet and now are sharing their lives together. Quite interesting, especially because most of the stories are based here in Montreal, where the gay community sure is numerous.
Anyway, there was this couple of lesbians. One of them is trying to get pregnant to complete their happy family and they were checking a list of possible donors. Finally they decided over some italian guy who seemed to fill out their expectations. When they called the clinic where the sperm bank is, the person working there told them they had made a great choice. The guy is nice, fun, good looking and goes to the clinic to donate his sperm every single week…
Man! That guy must be in an incredible need to spread his seeds to go every week to play with a little cup and leave his legacy to the world. I mean, I don’t know much about fertility clinics, but can’t sperm cells can be frozen or something? Why does he have the need to do it every week? What does he feel knowing that there will be possibly a few (if not a lot) of children out there he can call his own?
The issue of men wanting to spread their seeds and leave their mark all around has been discussed for years. It’s been used a reason for infidelity (I remember this huge argument we had in one ouf Mammalogy classes when the teacher came with an article called “Why do we cheat” featured in a TIME Magazine if I’m not mistaken). Anyway, there are hundreds of articles on “Why do men cheat“.
I just wonder… whoever is that italian stud’s girlfriend (or wife), I think she prefers he goes to the sperm bank and play with the little, instead of fooling around? It just sounds odd. Once in a while is good, we have to preserve the species, but every single week??
Oh my, there’s spreading your seeds and then, again, there’s spreading your seed! I guess this particular guy gets a kick out of knowing there may be a zillion little ‘hims’ running around out there. Worries me somewhat though about a shrinking gene pool, don’t you think?
He probably goes every week because he gets well paid for it! When I was pregnant with my 1st child my temporary contract finished and my husband was a student. We discovered that he could get £20 (a lot back then) for each sperm donation and that he could donate twice a week for up to 6 months. :thumb: He went and had the tests and was discovered to be fertile enough (which we’d already guessed given the size of my belly!) but unfortunately his sperm didn’t freeze well – a common problem apparently! :sad: Unfortunately he got turned down as a donor.