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[Bozack]

Sperm donors wanted, healthy males between 18-39, earn up to $150 a week, call 555 779 3988.

Sigh. I really DO want a skateboard. Should I do it? And what's the worst thing you've done for money?

[jough]

How much sperm are we talking about for $150 a week?

I mean, a few samples, no problem.

40 Gallons - there may be trouble.

Heck, I'm a healthy male between 18 and 39.  I'm going to be "manufacturing" anyway - may as well get paid for it, right?

[wombat]

This never occured to me before (perhaps because I was never unemployed for this long?) - I am awestruck by the terrible injustice of the fact that men can get paid for going into a nice clean room and, um, pleasuring themselves.  I mean, I knew that that life wasn't fair for women, but surely this is the last straw.

[CortJstr]

Well women can get like $50,000 for egg donation but it's not exactly a pleasurable experience.

I'd do the donation thing if it was a convenient location. Right now I'm considering signing up for those marketing surveys that are always on Craig's List.

[arkabee]

and yet i can't put ona tank top, slink into a bar, lean over to pick up a pack of matches, and have 40-odd "gentlemen" buy me a drink.

indeed, life is full of social inequities.

WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE SPERMS?!?

1- x-files-esque manipulation de la genetica de la "good ol' mother nature".

2- stockpiling for later artificial insemmination.  i can't beleive there is THAT much of a demand for sperm such that there are that many eggs and ovas and uteri that ae lonely for the wiggly.  plus, if it is for pure baby making and not for 1. (see above), then THEY ARE GETTING BABIES MADE BY MEN WHO NEED "up to $150 a week" which can't possibly be good for the gene pool.

life is frightening.

[CortJstr]

THEY ARE GETTING BABIES MADE BY MEN WHO NEED "up to $150 a week" which can't possibly be good for the gene pool.

To be fair some of them might just really like to spank it and the money is just a side bonus. Getting paid for doing what you love and all.

[arkabee]

THEY ARE GETTING BABIES MADE BY MEN WHO NEED "up to $150 a week" which can't possibly be good for the gene pool.

To be fair some of them might just really like to spank it and the money is just a side bonus. Getting paid for doing what you love and all.

MY DADDY LOVED TO MASTURBATE SO MUCH THAT'S HOW MOMMA MADE ME!!

[V-Adore]

To be fair, I can totally see the whole "if you're going to do it anyway" element of it -- and hey, it's a wholly renewable resource. I would consider egg donation if eggs were as renewable or as, er, easy to extract as sperm is. (If they were, of course, it would be "up to $150" and not $50K, but hey.)

Anyway, I think the deal with the massive quantities is that those who are interested in artificial insemination want a choice in just who the insemination originated from, and the best way to do this is to build a significant pool of possible donors. As I understand it, most of the stuff will never actually be used to fertilize an egg, but it's there in case anyone comes in and wants a father with your traits.

[CortJstr]

Plus sperm banks make dandy locations for off-color jokes. Often featuring the phrase "drinking on the job"

[jough]

They took one look at me and offered me $1500 a shot.

I guess some sperm is more in-demand than others.

Oh, and if you tell them you have arthritic hands they will send in someone to "extract" it for you.

Bling!

[Bozack]

I would consider egg donation if eggs were as renewable or as, er, easy to extract as sperm is.

I only recently found out they used surgery for this; I previously assumed it had involved some very gentle, very long needlenosed pliers or something.

[jough]

Yeah, all social iniquities aside, it must suck being a woman, if only for the plumbing issues.

[wombat]

and yet i can't put ona tank top, slink into a bar, lean over to pick up a pack of matches, and have 40-odd "gentlemen" buy me a drink.

Yeah, and like this is so great that it makes up for - no, no, I'm stopping right now.  Ark, normally I think you are cute, but please don't get me going any farther on gender inequalities in my present state of mind.

Not only do you need surgery to get egg donations, the woman needs to take drugs.  

Despite the unfairness of it all, I don't really think there's any danger to the gene pool that sperm donations come from guys who need money.  Surely lots of decent, and maybe even later highly successful, guys, go through a period in which they can't afford a skateboard, right?  And I'm not sure we could continue the species if we excluded men who like to masturbate from reproducing.

[CortJstr]

And I'm not sure we could continue the species if we excluded men who like to masturbate from reproducing.

Hey, for us it's Doctor Recommended! Keeping the plumbing clean and moving helps prevent prostate problems and such.

[arkabee]

First and foremost i want to make it perfectly clear  that contrary to any comments i may have made in this forum or elsewhere or any interpretations of said comments, that i would definitely masturbate for money.  into a cup.  to have horrid genetic manipulations done to my dna in an effort to create a new race of beings so near-sighted that their eyes actually become black-holes and the entirety of the cosmos is threatened.  but i digress.

and yet i can't put ona tank top, slink into a bar, lean over to pick up a pack of matches, and have 40-odd "gentlemen" buy me a drink.

Yeah, and like this is so great that it makes up for - no, no, I'm stopping right now.  Ark, normally I think you are cute, but please don't get me going any farther on gender inequalities in my present state of mind.

Not only do you need surgery to get egg donations, the woman needs to take drugs.  

Despite the unfairness of it all, I don't really think there's any danger to the gene pool that sperm donations come from guys who need money.  Surely lots of decent, and maybe even later highly successful, guys, go through a period in which they can't afford a skateboard, right?  And I'm not sure we could continue the species if we excluded men who like to masturbate from reproducing.

i tend to _try_ to veer into the absurd when countering points in which i think the other party is particularly sensitive too, in an effort to not step on toes or whatnot.

and while i do not wish to antagonize you in your current state of mind, nor do i wish to antagonize you in _ANY_ state of mind.  kevbob is friend to all small children.

however, i have to say this:

everyone is not equal.  nor, in my opinion, should they be.  

also: the individuals define the group, the group does not define the indivuals.  yet, the perception is often the opposite.

inequities based on faulty perception piss me off, too.  

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to me, comparing male sperm donation to female egg donation is akin to comparing taking off your hat to removing an anuerism from a brain.  while they both involve similar areas of the body, the complexities of the one make the simplicity of the other laughable.

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inre: excluding masturbaters from society.

my vague point was more about the notion of the sperm clinic keeping an eye on who's was whats, rather than there being no good mastrubaters to choose from.