Looking For Sperm? Pick A Sperm Donor On Your Phone
You can order clothes, furniture and food for your baby on your phone, so why not a sperm donor to get it all started?
The London Sperm Bank has a new mobile application that allows the user to pick a biological father for their unborn child. According to the Times, women can filter the donor daddies by physical traits, such as height and hair color, as well as by the men’s interests, hobbies and education levels.
“We are an incredibly IT-savvy nation, more so than many of our European counterparts,” Dr. Kamal Ahuja of the London Sperm Bank told the BBC. “I think it’s a natural expectation of that lifestyle that we make more and more of our choices using the latest tools that are available to us.”
MIT Technology Review explains the free app is “essentially just a mobile version of the filtered search function the London Sperm Bank offers on its website.” That includes thousands of sperm donors, so the mobile users can get notifications when new donors become available or when new donors meet their preset criteria.
But for prospective parents who wish to order some of the sperm they find on the app, which could be roughly $1,200 a pop, the sperm will not be sent directly to their homes; according to the MIT Technology Review, for security purposes they will go to fertility centers.
For the new sperm app’s detractors who may say it leads to “designer babies” because parents can pick different physical characteristics, like eye color, and educational levels, Ahuja told the BBC: “These are the sort of things that you naturally look for in a mate. How can that be a designer baby? If that’s a designer baby, then all of us are designed in some form and shape.”