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WiFi Laptops Are Killing Your Sperm, Says Science

WiFi Laptops Are Killing Your Sperm, Says Science

Gentlemen, perhaps it's time to lay off the laptops for a a bit, or at least, laptops on your...laps, if you have any hopes of going forth and multiplying in this life. A new study found that semen placed under a WiFi-enabled laptop doesn't exactly swim fast and furious after exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by wireless signals. more ›

Video: Mobile Sperm Bar Seeks Donors For Delicious Mocktails

Video: Mobile Sperm Bar Seeks Donors For Delicious Mocktails

Later this month, a mobile "SpermBar" will hit the streets of NYC, setting up on Museum Mile to offer delicious non-alcoholic cocktails made by Cristian Molina, who does the exceptional cocktails at Rouge Tomate. The SpermBar is an edible interactive art installation by French artist Prune Nourry, who says her work is "inspired by the commoditization of human reproduction and the ‘customer satisfaction’ culture." It sounds like an amusing project, but lovers of semen-infused beverages beware: the mocktails won't actually contain sperm! Oh, these "conceptual" artists and their confusing "happenings"... more ›

Wife Wants Dead Husband's Sperm For His Girlfriend

Wife Wants Dead Husband's Sperm For His Girlfriend

Some wives are surprisingly understanding when their husbands tell them out of the blue that they have a ten-year-old love child with their former mistress. Other wives are so understanding, they get court orders to extract sperm from their recently deceased husband so that his girlfriend can have his baby. more ›

Judge OKs Harvesting Dead Man's Sperm

Judge OKs Harvesting Dead Man's Sperm

Yesterday, a judge gave permission to a grieving Bronx woman to have sperm extracted from her dead fiance. Johnny Quintana suddenly died on Thursday night, but days earlier, he told his family how he looked forward to having more children with his fiancee Gisela Marrero. more ›

Judges: No Dead Son's Sperm to Create Grandchild

Judges: No Dead Son's Sperm to Create Grandchild

A couple's desire to use their deceased son's sperm to produce a grandchild was shot down by a NY state appeals court. The New York Law Journal reports, "When Mark Speranza deposited sperm samples at Repro Lab in 1997, he gave no reason for his donation, but signed an agreement directing the tissue bank to destroy the semen in the event of his death. Six months later, he died of cancer." His parents "learned about the sperm deposit while sorting through their son's personal belongings" and paid $400/year for the storage of the sperm and lined up a surrogate mother. But when Repro refused to turn over the sperm, the parents sued. The judges ruled that giving the sperm to Speranza's parents would violate a law requiring sperm donors to be screened, "even though we recognize the joy that ignoring the regulations could bring to plaintiffs." The Speranza's lawyer is considering their options, pointing out, "There has been no case like this ever." Related: In vitro babies created after their father's death were ruled heirs to their grandfather's estate. more ›

Smuggled Mob Sperm Baby Can't See Dad

Smuggled Mob Sperm Baby Can't See Dad

A woman is upset her daughter can't visit her mobster dad in prison. Regina Granato and Colombo family associate husband Kevin Granato managed to smuggle his sperm--taken in the middle of his 25-year prison sentence--out for her to conceive now 9-year-old Gianna. (Prison officials found out about the scheme when the baby came to visit and Granato said it was his daughter.) Regina Granato tells the Staten Island Advance that her husband was suddenly moved from a Pennsylvania federal prison to one in Oregon, making it impossible to visit him because doctors advise Gianna, who has a heart condition, not take long trips. Regina Granato, who served 9 months probation and a hundred hours of community service, says little Gianna is devastated she can't see her dad, "They hate us for what we did. They hate us just because she was born." more ›

Bad Idea Genes: Sperm Donation "Favor" Problems

Bad Idea Genes: Sperm Donation "Favor" Problems

If you're going to donate sperm to someone as a favor, talk it over with your lawyer first! Newsday reports a Nassau County doctor who donated sperm to a co-worker over 18 years ago is "legaly considered the father and may have to pay child support for the college-bound teenager." The doctor says he donated the sperm to his co-worker and her partner; he had agreed to give up rights and benefits to the child,... more ›

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