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Many sperm donors assume they'll be biological dads to just a few children. But with the news that some donors have fathered over 100 kids come calls for tighter regulation. More »
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An Australian fertility clinic's ad (seen in FHM) involves pages stuck together. Pull 'em apart, and there's a photograph of a sexay woman and the line "Don't waste your sperm." So… We want these dudes contributing to the gene pool? More »
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In the 1980s, Dr. Kirk Maxey fathered, by his count, some 400 children. Now he wants to see better regulation of sperm donation. Hypocritical? Maybe, but he might also be onto something. More »
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Meet Stuart Miller. You thought Dov Charney was a creepy boss? In Stuart's defense, he runs a sperm bank. But Growing Generations is a high-end sperm (and surrogate) bank catering to Hollywood agents and assorted other corporate bigwig types that was just profiled in W Magazine! So you can imagine how Miller's old marketing manager Scott Glasgow found it a little inappropriate when the Boss Man, according to a lawsuit just filed in federal court in Manhattan, emailed him this picture of himself. (There's an even more surreal — though surprisingly SFW — specimen from a company "team building" exercise after the jump.) Still, Glasgow liked his job. He made $100,000 helping gay couples "create new life"! So he had endured Miller's insistence that they share a bed on the company "Vision Cruise" even though he had no interest in actually doing him. The boss was going to make him VP! But then came all the cult classes: More »
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Despite what the Daily Mail is encouraging these days, most women attempting to get knocked up are advised to stay away from alcohol and cigarettes. Well a new study shows that men looking to sperminate a lady might want to stay off the toxins, too. According to research done at the University of Idaho, chemically-damaged sperm can pass altered genes to future generations. The future defects included overgrown prostates, infertility and kidney problems — all of which were present up to four generations later, says the Guardian. Both tobacco and excessive amounts of alcohol can find their way into seminal fluid, says professor Cynthia Daniels of Rutgers, who has written books on reproduction. More »
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