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BBC 1 'Inside Out' South East, The Darker Side of Sperm Donation

3/17/2016

 
Our Director and Founder, Claire McQuoid, was interviewed by Natalie Graham for BBC 1 'Inside Out' South East (22.02.16), about our policy research on sperm donor abuse. Whilst the episode was compact, it nevertheless packed a mighty punch at raising awareness about the risks and dangers that await women when they go online to find an unregulated sperm donor. Laura Witjens recounted her experience of researching unregulated Internet sperm donation. We disturbingly heard how online sperm donors had sent her videos of masturbation and other men had told 'porkies about themselves.' A brave lesbian couple stepped forth to be interviewed. They had gone online hoping to find an altruistic donor to help them conceive. Instead, they soon discovered that genuine and safe men were outweighed by those placing pressure for sex or wanting to do harm. Can you see the theme emerging?
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In all too typical fashion, the man surfing unregulated Internet sperm donor sites to impregnate one woman after another through sex or by artificial insemination hid behind the cloak of anonymity. In that regard, the question must be posed...'is he also hiding behind an alias and concealing his identity when he sires children'? By his own admission, he reached the HFEA family limit of donating sperm via a fertility clinic before he stepped into the unregulated cyber-world where he has subsequently sired 'scores of children.' Should anyone have been expecting to hear his narrative of altruism and kindness, it was never articulated. Instead, we the watching and listening audience, were confronted by a man whom, by his own admission, was using cyberspace to sire scores of children because he needed an ego boost. I suppose man, in his primitive form (and men with personality disorders), get an ego massage from the irresponsibility of siring children with countless different women. We also know that many men cruising unregulated Internet sperm donor sites and social media platforms are looking for sex (consensual or coercive)...and if they just happen to get a sexual kick from impregnating women...they have struck lucky. This man is no different from the vast number of unregulated sperm donors we have researched....altruism and kindness are rare to unearth in this cyber community. What is easy to find by the bucket load, however, are men striving to profiteer financially by selling gametes illegally and those men perpetually searching for sexual gratification. 

We do not know how many children have been born as a consequence of the unregulated cyber trade in sperm. But the man interviewed by Natalie Graham was clearly motivated by sex and fathering large numbers of children with different women. Should anyone be under the illusion that he is altruistic, let's not forget his comment, where he compared fathering children to 'taking out the dustbins.'  


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    Claire McQuoid

    Founder of the Sperm Donor Abuse Foundation. Striving to share knowledge and raise awareness about the dangers awaiting women when they go online to find an unregulated sperm donor.

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