I’ve been trying to come up with a blog topic for today, but the general world of sexuality/nerd-dom is having a slow news day. Then, I caught this on Jezebel just now and I couldn’t resist posting it. After all, it’s hilarious. And very, very true. This is from the Sperm Donors of Australia website and it hits the nail right on the head in an amazing way! It’s also probably the best use of stock photography I’ve ever seen. This is pure genius.
I’ve always been curious about sperm donation. Who does it? Have any of you every donated sperm? (To a clinic, that is. Not someone you’re having sex with.) What was it like? I actually think it’s a pretty nice thing to do… To be able to help people have children. Especially with the essays and questionnaires that are often required, it’s not just jerking off for cash. It’s quite a good deed.
I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts, whether about personal/anecdotal experiences with sperm donation or just about whether this awesome ad changed your mind/convinced you in any way. Besides, while doing a good deed and making some hard-earned (no pun intended) cash, you could watch some videos from The Art of Blowjob. That in itself is worth it!
Wish I could but had testicular cancer a few years back so no more tadpoles.I could get a job in a harem but Now batttling secondaries in bowel. OH well have 2 kids and had a intresting life . TMI Sorry
Who would have thought Camille that your lovely videos were helping childless parents . Could be a new business idea for infertility clinics . BTW Hope you and Mike have a lovely week
Aw, I’m so sorry to hear that, Peter. I’m sending hugs your way.
And it’s nice to think that my videos could help that way. Who knows?
We are having a lovely week and I hope you are, too!
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Anecdotes, eh? Well, I was a sperm-donor baby, so I’m probably one of its biggest proponents and supporters. I was “made possible” around the beginning of the procedure, in the early 1980s, before it got too institutionalized– my mom used a local small-town sperm bank, which today (in the U.S. at least) have all been merged (for better or worse) into a handful of centralized organizations/facilities.
I’ve always been immensely grateful to my anonymous father. I have no desire to meet him or interfere with his life, and I respect that he has never tried to meet me or interfere with mine. I’m just glad he had the graciousness and generosity to make my life (and who knows how many other lives) possible.
My mom had planned on having a “normal” family– husband and kid[s]– but once she reached her late 30s and no husband had appeared, she decided not to waste further time and used a sperm bank to get pregnant instead. She raised me singlehandedly, and made sure I was never lacking in positive male role models and father figures.
Like you say, Camille, sperm donation today isn’t nearly as “easy” as pop culture makes it seem (the major U.S. sperm banks require a 2-year commitment of multiple donations each week plus significant health screenings), which means having a stable lifestyle and, somewhat unfortunately, very tightly scheduled extra-curricular sexual plans, since the man isn’t supposed to ejaculate within 24 hours prior to donating. (So much for a sex life!)
But it’s such an amazing cause– helping parents who WANT children, and guaranteeing that those children will be healthy, at least in terms of hereditary genetics (thanks to all the advance screenings). Sperm banks are used by all sorts of people– single women, lesbian couples, heterosexual married women who can’t otherwise conceive, etc etc. And they are incredible “no long-term strings attached” opportunities for men to put their sperm to good use— after all, we’re all going to keep jacking off anyway (especially with TAOB around!!), so why not donate that jizz to a good cause?
Thanks for putting up this post, Camille– the Australian ad is definitely funny, and the cause is one of the most rewarding and generous ones available. Trust me, I’m living proof!
Three cheers,
Cal
What a wonderful story. I was just talking to my wife about this yesterday. How it would feel not to know who your parents are, and you ancestors. This man demonstrates that that really is not as important, as he had a loving mother and was brought up with male role models.
Yep, it’s all about the family you have and the wonderful people in your life, not just about genes.
That is one heck of an anecdote! I’m grateful for your anonymous father too. It sounds like your mother did a great job raising you (you are such a gentleman, after all) and that this really is a wonderful thing to do. Why not donate that jizz to a good cause, indeed!
Well those porno mags are apparently not doing the trick. Maybe Carille should donate some of her time to assist the staff in learning how to extract sperm.
At least you might provide closed circuit viewing of your videos.
I was shocked to learn these donors wanted $$$. How can you put a price on helping a women who want to bring a baby into this world to love and care for on their own?
Well, it is a lot of testing and writing and such. I’d say it’s a fair trade off.
LOL yep thats Australian humor for you hahaha
Aussies seem like a hilarious bunch.
Oh we are lol
Where do I sign up?!?! I can make money, doing what I already do for free?!?!?!
Well, if you’re Australian, I suppose you can click right on that smiling gentleman giving the thumbs up.
As a fellow Canadian, Australia would be a hell of a commute to jerk off… Or it would have to pay REALLY well!
Come for the jerking off, stay for the kangaroos!
i went to a fmaily planning clinic – the pron mags they had were terrible – i like all of your avid fans whould watch vidoe and that would enable us all to donate genrously not just to sperm clinics – my wife isnt complaining.
My mother died when she was young andf i dont know my father – sop i can feel sfor the donor babies – why interfere – mind you where i live all of the teenage single mothers all concur that they beleived in the mimaculate concpetion – dont know how it happened and oh god, oh god ogh you batard – i think are the workds muttered by said moms.
leading me onto another story i had to providng my sample by masturbating and im a bit loud when id finished – the girl came round and she was blushing -= the office she worked in was right behind the room i was in 0- needless to say – she asked me to give her one !
Sounds like quite a story!
I’ve heard that it can be a good way of supplementing your income, but that the requirements for health, life-style, etc. are pretty stringent. A lot of men simply can’t participate not because they are infertile or have a sexually transmittable disease, but because they have some other disease or condition or are on some sort of medication. That’s not to say that it’s not all for a good reason, it certainly is. But while donating sperm may be more fun, donating blood is probably easier. I don’t remember the specifics, but I took a look at the possibility of sperm donation. It was actually easier to be part of the marrow donation program.
Ah well, seems like it would be a lot of pressure to perform. I mean, what do you do if you go in to donate and things just aren’t workin’ that day? Even worse, maybe in an effort to donate anyways, you wind up injuring yourself with some kind of chaffing or friction burn, and that’ll just get worse next time you go to donate. It seems like there are a lot of potential head-aches involved. Not as bad as for donating eggs from what I hear though, but egg donation pays very well to compensate. The numbers I’ve heard are generally 50 U.S. dollars for sperm, and 1000 U.S. dollars for eggs. However, I haven’t heard many first-hand accounts of the procedures involved for either gender, other than that egg donation involves needing to take hormones and possibly a slightly invasive procedure to extract the eggs.
It does sound like a lot of requirements and such, but ultimately I think helping people conceive is a really great thing to do.
It certainly is a worth-while endeavor, it’s simply that, a lot of men can’t participate due to the strict requirements. I’m not sure it would be entirely inaccurate to say most men can’t donate. For one, you have to be young and fertile. Also, apparently, most women will ask for sperm from tall donors, so it seems some sperm banks have height requirements (that unfortunately, I do not meet
). As if that’s not enough, there’s also a frequent requirement that you either have, or are getting, a 4-year college degree. I guess they want to make sure your genetics provide for good intelligence? The irony of it is that the people who would most need the money for donation are the people who are disqualified. Though I guess it can help draw in financially hurting college students, so long as they measure up. You have to be in good health, which I believe also means you can’t donate if you’re overweight or have any medical conditions, even minor ones. Of course, if you’re a carrier for a genetic disorder, that would also disqualify you.
I suppose it makes sense, the material is going to be used to create a human, so the stakes are higher than, say, a blood transfusion. The requirements are probably more comparable to requirements for organ transplants – another matter of life.
Yeah, I guess it’s a situation in which they can be choosy, so they are, otherwise they’d have a line up around the block every day for guys willing to jerk off for money.
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