To be really shocked by the sperm donor on Victoria Derbyshire?

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He's making the case against unregulated sperm donation single-handed.

He sounds revolting!

Oh yes Schwab, with Serena Joy digging her knees into Offred's ribs to make her presence felt.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35296034

There he is.

Yes, you'd hope someone's called the HMRC. Brings a whole new definition to 'self employed'.

Or handyman ?

It's a serious point though. He's explained he charges £50. He also claims to have been successful 800 times (which suggests his income may have been more than £40,000. Although presumably he'll want to keep his exact "hit rate" a secret). The article is unclear whether he charges per pop, or per successful result.

Another serious point is that he makes fuck all checks on the suitability of the people he's fathering children for. Bear in mind it's almost axiomatic that some of his customers will have been turned down for AI treatment for such reasons.

I'm wondering whether his customers converse with him long enough to form an informed opinion on whether blending genes with him is wise.

If the initial phone calls are short and the service station meets/inseminations are usual, I might have had more opportunity to form an opinion of him notice that he's a bit peculiar than many of the intending mothers.

I wonder if any past customers have seen his appearance today?

He says he donates once a week and has been doing so for 16 years. That makes c.800 donations, not 800 children. So I'm not surprised his 40k figure doesn't add up either. Doesn't exactly seem the sharpest tool in the shed.

Great advert for proper licenced clinics!

He says he donates once a week

The old adage about what %age of the population are liars springs to hand mind

If he's been donating for 16 years his first children will becoming up to child bearing ages thenselves. What if he donates to one of them?

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If he's been donating for 16 years his first children will becoming up to child bearing ages thenselves. What if he donates to one of them?

I'm pretty sure the risks of inbreeding, whilst significant, are nowhere near as bad as imagined.

But it's a dreadful thought.

Is this the man from Hull? If so I've read before that there's a worry that because there will be so many half siblings abounding in a small area with no knowledge of their biological father, there will be accidental inbreeding.

Also, the man is a complete creep - he offers "donations" for £50 but will give a reduced rate to lady couples who want to do things the "natural way" and maintains that it has higher rates of success.

Nope, Nr Luton, apparently.

I had to trawl his horrible FB page to fact-check that for you OneFlew (loads of references to 'one I made' and not wasting 'ammo' ) . You're welcome

www.facebook.com/Simon-Watson-Sperm-Donor-210412125671595/

I though gay women could now get NHS services anyway (?) WHY would they go near him now?

(Or Mr Hull, or any of them?)

but will give a reduced rate to lady couples who want to do things the "natural way"

Aren't there laws about advertising for sexual services in the UK ?

And given Facebooks stance on a hint of boob, one wonders if this falls foul of their AUP ....

Uggh that Facebook site.

It makes it so much worse that there's more than one man out there doing this - how horrifying.

Oh God that Facebook site is awful, he's talking about his children and his previous relationships, all of which have now ended which isn't surprising!!!
The continual comments about wasting ammo are just nauseating, eww.

I can't stop reading that FB page now.

^These are my own ones

Simon Watson (Sperm Donor) : [name removed] in the blue t-shirt doesn't normally look that dopey but it was taken really late at night:L His own facebook has decent photos of him!

He's touting his own children like sales samples and encouraging prospective customers to go and look at the younger boy's FB profile! That boy looks about 10! All of this wide open and public. I'm running out of faces.

Oops I included the kids' names. I'll ask MNHQ to edit. Probably futile but just because he's invading their privacy doesn't mean I should join in.

So wrong on so many levels, okay, he's a weird narcissist with a complex and some warped ideas but the women/men/couples going to him - what the hell are THEY thinking? Have they at any point considered the psychological effects it will have on the resulting children?

They can't be thinking about it in anything other than a very superficial - maybe desperation driven - way, or you just wouldn't do it, would you?

Who wants to be the person growing up trying to absorb and fully understand that conception, that man, that FB page and the idea of maybe 1000+ half-siblings?

Nowadays men who donate sperm informally to lesbian or heterosexual married/CP'd couples are not regarded as the father by the CSA if the insemination was artificial.

However that exemption does not apply to a) donations by the "natural method" b) babies born before the law changed in 2009.

It must be hard to establish that if the whole transaction was achieved informally in the m1 services, though. It's not as though there is a letter from a clinic. Boggling.

He came (!) across as a massive wanker.