Talk:Sperm donation

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    • Money - Payment to donors, payment by recipients, onselling of sperm
    • Perspectives of the parties involved - e.g. why donors may wish to remain anonymous, how children may feel about not knowing their father, why women wish to conceive in this way.
    • 'Browsing' of prospective fathers - what information is provided with the sperm, and how can it be known to be accurate?
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[edit] Merge

I think sperm donor should be merged into this article. They have a huge amount of overlap. Also, the much more extensive organ donation and blood donation articles have redirects from organ donor and blood donor. If donor and donation information can be incorporated into those articles, I don't see why it cannot be done in this one. -- Kjkolb 17:03, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I completely agree. I however think they both has too much subjective information and too little objective information. I have tried to correct some but also don't want to do to much as I am new to this. Clausbbb

They've been merged, but it could use some cleanup. -- Kjkolb 07:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What does this mean?

"Through the advent of DNA testing and internet access to extensive databases of information, many sperm donors have recently been traced and it has made them have to confront how to present the fact that they were a donor to their wife or girlfriend as well as to their wider family."
Huh? Kinst 02:22, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

The article indicates that "Many" donors have been traced over the internet as a result of DNA testing however only one case is cited and I believe this is an unsupported accusation. Does anyone have a reference that would back this up?

[edit] Credentials?

"Few checks if any are made by sperm banks on sperm donors' self-supplied details and some sperm banks routinely inflate the credentials of their donors."

This is a pretty big accusation. Should require clarification ("The following researchers or individuals have claimed that..." or sources. ~~ Aristagoras

[edit] Equivalent article needed on egg donation

I added Egg Donantion to Requested Articles, but thought it would be a good idea to put it here too -- a lot of the same issues involved. See Brown, Andrea. "The family nest eggs", The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 2006-07-24.  --Renice 00:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

There is such an article on egg donor. I made a link there at the bottom. Mikael Häggström 12:24, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I've made a redirect from Egg Donation so nobody else misses it. I think we should keep the two articles consistent. One is named 'sperm donation' while the other is named 'egg donor'. Since the interaction involves a recipient and children as well, 'egg donation' would probably be more appropriate. Richard001 07:35, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link Farm

The site needs some links to sperm banks of course, but I'm not quite clear on why all of the ones on the list, need to be there. I'm sure we could prune it to one or two from each country.

ManicParroT 17:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I've removed a large number of links which appeared to be advertising particular services or Yahoo groups. More could probably stand to go, on top of that, but we'll see. – Luna Santin (talk) 19:43, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Free Fertility Foundation

This link appears to be to advertising for one donor - suggest deletion. 130.216.191.182 07:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

  • It wasn't ment to be, but if it might appear so, go ahead. Mortsggah 14:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Additional references

I removed the tag at the top requesting more references, since there are several references in the article. Therefore, further requests of references are better made in the respective sections instead where such are lacking. Mikael Häggström 11:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merging or moving

I think sperm bank is a candidate to be merged into this article. A sperm bank is an important aspect of sperm donation, and should be given more coverage here besides just linking to it. The article is very small though, so merging may be a better idea, especially as this one is not particularly large itself. There's also the possibility of merging both this and egg donation into one broader article (say gamete donation), though I think the topics are distinct enough and both have much potential despite being quite brief at this stage. Richard001 08:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)