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There's a wacky exclusive in the Post today about the only sperm bank in NYC with Scandinavian sperm running out of its specialty. Seriously.
Two years ago, the FDA banned sperm from some countries over concerns that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which can be found in mad cow cells, could be passed on via sperm. The Post reports that Cryos International's Financial District branch "has run out of offerings from such prized blond Norsemen as 'Oluf,' 'Dagh,' 'Finn,' 'Ingi,' 'Jorn' and 'Ante.'" It's true - check out names of some sample donors here.
One Upper West Side couple, who has a daughter by the Danish donor "Dane" and is looking to have another, was shocked by the ban.Some doctors believe the ban on foreign sperm is unnecessary, since the risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob may be negligible. At any rate, the Post definitely had fun with this article. For instance: "Couples who once hoped to purchase samples from square-jawed, strapping Norsemen living in Lillehammer will have to settle for locksmiths, bartenders and struggling writers from less exotic locales, such as Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Rego Park, Queens, and Hackensack, N.J. "The parents, both 41, purchased Dane's donation before it ran out. They have enough left to try another artificial insemination, but if that doesn't work they won't be able to give their 8-month-old daughter a full sibling. "It's really stunning because I did want the same father for my daughter," said the mother, whose husband was left sterile by a childhood disease.
The couple chose Cryos because they wanted a child who resembled them.
But who knew there were only six sperm banks in NYC?
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Good, most of these people are stuck up know it alls anyway.
If you're going for the Nordic look in sperm donors, you might want to look into Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
Start hanging out at Ikea.
What a bunch of jerk offs.
People who do take donated sperm to get pregnant are totally selfish. If you can't have kids, deal with it and adopt. Otherwise you'll have to answer the question "who was my father?" To which your answer will have to be, "Your father is some college kid who was hard up for money so he whacked off to porn every other week into a dish at a lab and got paid for it. Isn't that charming? You have half brothers and sisters all over the world because this kid kept jerking of for money. Not only that, but I was 42 and he was 23 so I had the sperm of a 23 year old implanted in me, kinda weird don't you think? Even though we didn't have sex, it's a bit creepy don't you think? And I don't even know who the kid was. Yes darling, that's your father. Feel good?"
Real scands don't go to Ikea.
you ever visit an Ikea, it's kryptonite to scands.
Where do they buy their Swedish meatballs and special sauce from if not IKEA?
You know as you mention it, I had a sneaky feeling that the sales rep that I talked to, she had a Spanish accent, wasn't really from Sweden. She never said, "Yah."
#6 - you're an idiot. Thank God you won't be donating.
#8 According to this post there is a need for "Swedish meatballs" to make the "special sauce."
why pay for it when you can get black or puerto rican sperm for free when you get raped in the subways?
Friends of mine are looking to adopt and they say that the courts have made it so easy for birth parents to reclaim their kids that Americans are less eager to adopt within the US. Throw in the fact that US adoptions are "open" it makes it possible for the birth parents to track down the adoptive parents. We know one couple where the birth parents tried to extort money from them.
I'm single Asian girl looking for sperm of blond hair blue eye gentleman with ivy league education and investment banking career. Anyone know please contact me please.
what happens if the kid who was grown from the donated sperm accidentally has sex with her mysterious father that she didn't know? this is some fucked up shit!!!!
in the near future. alot of inbreed blonde hair blue eye kids in america thanks to their parents.
Incest and inbreeding is nothing new in our society. Look at the Amish, Hasidic Jews and Lubavitcher sect, and Puerto Ricans and Dominicans...
#13 Hey Suze email me at flipyougolddiggingchink@yahoodotcom
Me lookie for tall handsome caucasan man
Another job Americans don't want to do.
You know who is worse than the couples who take donated sperm? Single women who say "I want to have a baby but I don't want to get married of be in a relationship, so I'll have some donated sperm implanted in me" Stupid bitches who are selfish and just want to have a kid because "they want to".
If you're a couple who has to resort to donated sperm and don't want to adopt, just deal with the freaking cards you were dealt and DON'T HAVE KIDS AT ALL. You fucking have to have kids to make you happy?
Jen, I love you for this headline.