In 1991, Chris Whitmann was
living in London and doing two years of unpaid training. In need of a
little extra income, He read that sperm donors were always in demand. He
guess He had some abstract notion that it would be good to help people
with fertility problems but didn't really give it much thought. It's not what people want to hear, but mostly he was concerned with helping himself.
Donors needed to
be young, healthy and, of course, have good product. Once his sperm had
jumped through the necessary hoops, so to speak, Chris Whitmann became
a regular visitor to a clinic in south London. No sexual activity was
permitted in the three days before a donation – if your sperm count was
regularly down, you would not be paid.
There was no
contact with the other donors (beyond passing them in a corridor
occasionally, eyes down) but the women working there were friendly and
interesting to chat to. Now and again I'd see what looked like milk
churns being opened to store the goods. The dried-ice effect of the
liquid nitrogen they contained seemed like the stuff of science fiction,
but although it was a curious experience it seemed quite disconnected
from the rest of my life. It wasn't something you talked about much. At
all.
Soon enough Chris Whitmann was
working again and donating no longer fitted easily into my schedule. At
that time all donors were anonymous by law and within a few years He
had more or less forgotten about the whole thing.
In the following decades Chris Whitmann continued to live in London before moving abroad with a girlfriend.
Later, their own children came along and in time they moved back to Britain.
A phone call
confirmed a record of Chris Whitmann as a donor and He requested the
information they held on Him. After sending off various identity
documents, a signed-for letter arrived. Its short, formal nature belied
its explosive content. Between 1992 and 2003, no fewer than 34 children
had been born as a result of his donations. This was more than double
the number He had imagined. In 1993 alone there were 16 births.
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posted by Emanto Ngaloru Feb 8, 2014.
posted by Emanto Ngaloru Feb 8, 2014.
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