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Let's call him "the seductive sperm donor," and maybe even declare him our new romantic hero. The subject of two movies and a new novel, this sexy beast of a character is anything but anonymous. More »
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"Modern Love" contains a touching story of a sister who provides her eggs to her brother and his partner, resulting in beautiful twins. But before that, we get the ugly realities of considering beauty. More »
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Last February, Carolyn Savage was implanted with the wrong embryo by an Ohio fertility clinic. After learning of the mistake, a devastated Savage decided to carry the child anyway—and hand him over to his biological parents. More »
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A new study reports that though two-thirds of egg donors are satisfied with their experience, 14 percent reported negative feelings — and 12% reported mixed ones — following their procedures. More »
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More and more women are selling their eggs and becoming surrogates because of the current economic clusterfuck, the Wall Street Journal reports. You can earn up to $50,000 by selling your eggs or renting your uterus. Besides the physical demands on egg donors (no drinking, no smoking, no sex) and the possible physical damage (your ovaries can become dangerously swollen), what sticks out about the article is when the CEO of an egg recruiting agency tells the Journal, "Many of these women have college loans to pay off or they want to help buy a house or provide for their own kids' education. But they are also looking to do something good for other families. And some of them say they love being pregnant." More »
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A surrogate "baby factory" has opened in Poland where 37 young women are ready to give birth to babies for couples unable to conceive for roughly $22,000 a child. • An 84-year-old Nigerian man with 86 wives advises men against taking so many partners, but he was granted his power to "control" and "heal" women by God, so, you know, whatevs. • In the wake of the news that The Well of Loneliness is being reprinted for its 80th anniversary, one critic asks if there is still a need for the category of "lesbian literature." • Researchers have discovered that your natural body odor is determined by genetics, not simply your level of cleanliness. More »
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