November 21, 2009
Published: 9 Nov 09 18:01 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23168/20091109/
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A 26-year-old man from Gothenburg, "used but in good condition", has had his advert removed from an auction site after offering his sexual services to lesbian women wishing to become pregnant.
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What do you call that child who is born from donated sperms?
Can they live the normal life as other childs?
We have enought of suicide attemps and rate in Sweden, I am affaird one day these kids would kill their parents.... too much freedom really sucks!
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DESIRED. Which is more that we can say for a lot of poor children who are "accidents" and may be the victim of being unwanted by their own parents.
So, its' not OK then for parents who have fertility problems to seek help because they may be the product of donated sperm?
I encourage these women to go to Denmark or to the USA where the state does not dictate to its people how they can reproduce.
I am sure if you ask a child who is born from donated sperms he/she would say I wish I had a real father and mother Not these user lesbians who like the men sperms not themselves . these sort abnormal people choose to be to gay or lesbian it , If they choose to be gay/lesbian then they should not play with life of children,
Many children would call them names in schools.. that would hurt them and it is not nice to allow such a time happen for kids. these lesbian and gays can go to hell!
This Sick guy has a girlfriend and he is doing this for money on the Auction site omg it is so sick.. how can his girlfriend let him to have sex with another woman (lesbian) I am sure they are players otherwise nobody like that their partner have sex with another and gives a birth a child which was called in the old time (bastard) and now we names is changed to "Donated boys"
Bidding on his sperm and his girlfriend is watching the lesbians keeps bidding, what is happening?
It is disrespectful for human and for innocent child, if you look at his face then you would think of donar's sperm and auction sites. this sucks this law suck this people suck. those who support such a dirty law is sick.
Wow.
And you need to re-read the article because it says clearly that the guy was never planning on having sex with anyone. This was a publicity stunt to raise the media profile of this issue.
And if all you really see when you look at living, breathing human beings is how they were born and you judge them based on that, you are one sick person. When you find out someone was adopted or grew up in an orphanage, is all you see when you look into their eyes abandonment, despair, and orphanages? You don't see them for who they are as human beings? You don't think their adoptive family counts as their family? Do you really think blood makes a family more than love?
What you forget about these parents is that they themselves are "innocent life" and all they want to do is create more "innocent life". Life is precious. You are the one who seems to mess with innocent life by attacking it.
Any human being who wants to care, nurture, love and raise a child is to be applauded, regardless of who it is. Think too of those poor infertile couples who want desperately to have children and can't. Sperm donation sometimes is their only hope.
We are just too quick to judge.
Thanks to the law student for highlighting discrimination.
Thank you for being a sane voice in this discussion.
The comments made by many, including the ignorant and scarily homophobic, intolerant ones by NewYork just prove how people comment as a gut reaction to their own fear and ignorance. Karex also made some wonderful points; This man was making a humorous effort to make fun of a court ruling he disagrees with. I thought his ad was funny and unique.
@Newyork-Växjö
Please humor me in answering these questions:
1) How would you feel about yourself if you suddenly learned your father wasn't who you thought - that YOU were a result of a sperm donation? I doubt you would start loathing yourself and commit suicide because you were not "normal" and a burden to society.
2) How do you identify a child who is a result of a sperm donation? Are they born with a stamp on their forehead to alert you, the ignorant? You would NEVER know unless someone shared that information with you.
I am sitting on the fence of indecision here. Do I get angry at you for your hurtful ignorance? Or do I feel sorry for you for living so blindly?
Guess neither. I am just a lowly human who doesn't deserve to judge others.