Re: poly: Missing Sperm Donors

From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue Jan 13 1998 - 12:19:39 PST

Robin Hanson writes:
> Surprisingly, there is more demand for sperm than supply,
> and donors are paid $45 per sample! This is strikingly
> contrary to standard evolutionary notions of men striving
> to spread their sperm far and wide.
[...]
> The analogy between cryonics (life via heads in liquid
> nitrogen) and sperm donation (genetic progeny via sperm
> in liquid nitrogen) seems tempting. In both cases the
> use of weird technology seems to prevent people from cheaply
> obtaining what they otherwise spend great sums attempting
> to obtain.

I know of one Extropian who became a sperm donor to have lots of
children without having to raise them himself. So, once again, there
are Extropians who lead in being "crazies"....

Perry
Received on Tue Jan 13 20:15:40 1998

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