In Denmark, sperm donation does not have to come with a name and telephone number – unlike in Britain and in a fast-increasing number of other European countries.
That has made Denmark something of a Mecca for foreign women who want to conceive by artificial insemination, because it has no shortage of officially screened and tested semen.
Danish clinics which provide insemination (often for a fraction of the price of similar treatment in the UK) have three main types of customer: lesbian couples, heterosexual couples and single women. It is the final category which is growing – by far – the fastest.
[i]Power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.[/i]
Stanley Baldwin on the press, but it seems to fit here. Especially depressing for those struggling with infertility, but for whom such an option is morally precluded.
Presumably only a journalist with the sensitivity to religion of someone who works at the BBC could use Mecca as a metaphor in a report on artificial insemination.
Oh, I dunno. There’s something amusingly ironic about the lesbian woman quoted in the story and her partner choosing lusty Nordic (Viking) sperm to create their children. They — and folks like them — could be helping to create a bunch of strapping, unapologetically heterosexual he-men! LOL
#3 Teatime
More likely to create a number of short, anxious and sometimes pernickety, fish-eating North Germans who leave the office at 5 pm sharp, although they can be good company and are polite to a fault.
LOL Pageantmaster.
Nah, the ladies are apparently choosing tall, blue-eyed Danes if the story is correct. So, I’m picturing, in 20 years time, these He-Man looking types (and their She-Ra counterparts) enthusiastically flexing about and populating Europe! It’s my fantasy, and I’m sticking to it. 😉
Well, Teatime, it is the last category that interests me more.
Clerk: Yes, Ma’am. How may I help you?
SingWom: Yes, thank you, I need top get knocked up, but I am exceedingly busy. How much time is required?
Clerk: How much time do you have?
Singmom: I have the time if you have the money ha ha ha ha but seriously, could you get me knocked up,say, on Friday afternoon, perhaps between 1 and 1:15? I need to catch a plane to Chicago immediately afterwards for a meeting. I shall have supper with my boyfriend, but neither of us as the time for the customary up-knocking procedure.
Larry
Larry, I’d be very concerned indeed if your interest mirrored my own in strapping, blue-eyed Danish men!
LOL Thou speakest true, Old Cup of Oolong. Larry