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“Donating sperm makes me feel good. Maybe it makes me feel wanted, and needed. Worth something to somebody else,” says Stefan, one of the subjects of “Spermworld,” the new FX on Hulu ...
Spermworld follows the stories of three sperm donors and their recipients. Inspired by Nellie Bowles ' article "The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand" for the New York Times , the documentary ventures into "spermworld", the unregulated online marketplaces where sperm donors connect with hopeful parents.
A woman who becomes pregnant by a sperm donor will be the recipient of his genetic material but the two may never even meet. Artificial insemination, which is the normal method of introducing donor sperm into a woman's body, thus becomes a substitute for sexual intercourse. If the woman becomes pregnant, the resulting pregnancy will be no ...
The film starts in 1985. Cecil Jacobson is a successful doctor, running his own reproductive genetic center. He is earning the respect of other doctors and is even nicknamed 'The Babymaker'. Nobody knows that he secretly uses his own sperm to impregnate his patients. One of his patients is Mary Bennett, a woman desperate to have a baby.
The sperm for insemination may be provided either by a sexual partner of the female's choice or by a sperm donor. [14] Donor sperm is most commonly used by lesbian couples and single women, [15] and by heterosexual couples when the male partner is suffering from male infertility. [16]
The three-part docuseries explores the actions of Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch man in his early 40s who has fathered, in his estimation, about 550 children via sperm donation since he was in his 20s.
A Los Angeles fertility doctor with decades of experience helping couples conceive was sued Thursday for allegedly inseminating a woman in 1986 with the sperm of a man who was not her husband ...
Donald Lee Cline (born December 10, 1938) is a former American medical doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and convicted felon. [1] [2] Between 1974 [clarification needed] and 1987, Cline sired over 90 children without disclosing himself as the sperm donor to his patients. [3]