Man with 1000 kids-Netflix

[Anonymous]

Binged watch this yesterday and found it really interesting about a man who is an ultra popular and prolific sperm donor.

Obviously from a genetic standpoint it isn’t good to have so many offspring and I wouldn’t have been pleased to know that if I used donor sperm how many potential half siblings there were but I kept thinking the women were a bit superficial for choosing a popular donor who had blue eyes and “good hair”. And they were fine having second children with him but then didn’t want anyone else to use him as a donor. And many liked that he was willing not to be anonymous. The women from Australia weren’t happy but they signed an agreement they couldn’t get donor information until their child was 18.

I think you have to be a bit conceited to be a keen donor in a way since you have to think you are good enough that your genes should be passed on.

I thought there was going to be a catch about he was a carrier of a generic disease. All this show is going to do is make him more popular as a donor. He is willing to not be anonymous, he is outgoing, blond, blue eyes, seems reasonably intelligent if he can make a good living and can travel, and apparently doesn’t have genetic issues.

In the end I didn’t like the donor but didn’t like many of the women who benefited either. And there is diverging a little perverse about bashing the father of your kids.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like these people's low-key eugenics obsession backfired on them in a big way. This guy sounds insufferable and his kids have almost certainly inherited a personality disorder, from the sounds of it.

Not really curious to watch this but will keep it in mind if I get bored.

[Anonymous]

I watched this and was disappointed that they didn't play up the White Supremacy angle more. It was obvious to me from the beginning that the Donor had an agenda of White Supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched this and was disappointed that they didn't play up the White Supremacy angle more. It was obvious to me from the beginning that the Donor had an agenda of White Supremacy.

And the recipients too IMO

Which is honestly uncomfortable to think about.

[Anonymous]

It was disturbing on many levels:
-Aside from the Australians, these women/couples were willing to have children a completely shady way by buying rando online sperm and doing gross insemination techniques. They came across as naive and stupid.
- He was an extremely ugly man! How is everyone describing him as attractive?!
- Strong currents of white supremacy.
- They were more concerned about the many kids out there than they were about having reproduced with some sort of psychopath. So many of them still wanted the kids to have a relationship with them! Incredibly messed up.

[Anonymous]

That is too many kids.
In the UK there's a legal limit of 10 live births then they throw your sperm away and refuse to use it again.
Makes total sense.

[Anonymous]

I need to watch it.

I have a (white) friend who had her first child with a Mexican man whose family was originally from a specific area in Mexico. They didn’t work out, and he moved back to Mexico City for work. Then she wanted another baby, via sperm donor. When I tell you she had packet upon packet on donors from Mexico, I’m not exaggerating. It took her nearly a year to find a donor with the same familial background as her ex. Interestingly enough, her children don’t look like her, but they definitely look like siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched this and was disappointed that they didn't play up the White Supremacy angle more. It was obvious to me from the beginning that the Donor had an agenda of White Supremacy.

And the recipients too IMO

Which is honestly uncomfortable to think about.

Or they just want their kids to look like them? I know there were traits about myself that I was very happy were passed onto my kids. 7/8 of my kids' great grandparents had blue eyes (and my dh), but my kids have brown eyes. My grandma in particular had really striking blue eyes and was always hoping one of her grandchildren or great grandchildren got them. Nothing white supremist about it. Liking traits that mostly white people have/your ancestors have isn't the same as white supremacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is too many kids.
In the UK there's a legal limit of 10 live births then they throw your sperm away and refuse to use it again.
Makes total sense.

There was a legal limit in these countries too. But this was private donations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is too many kids.
In the UK there's a legal limit of 10 live births then they throw your sperm away and refuse to use it again.
Makes total sense.

There was a legal limit in these countries too. But this was private donations.

Then I believe that practice should be criminalized, when it exceeds a certain number too.

[Anonymous]

Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Binged watch this yesterday and found it really interesting about a man who is an ultra popular and prolific sperm donor.

Obviously from a genetic standpoint it isn’t good to have so many offspring and I wouldn’t have been pleased to know that if I used donor sperm how many potential half siblings there were but I kept thinking the women were a bit superficial for choosing a popular donor who had blue eyes and “good hair”. And they were fine having second children with him but then didn’t want anyone else to use him as a donor. And many liked that he was willing not to be anonymous. The women from Australia weren’t happy but they signed an agreement they couldn’t get donor information until their child was 18.

I think you have to be a bit conceited to be a keen donor in a way since you have to think you are good enough that your genes should be passed on.

I thought there was going to be a catch about he was a carrier of a generic disease. All this show is going to do is make him more popular as a donor. He is willing to not be anonymous, he is outgoing, blond, blue eyes, seems reasonably intelligent if he can make a good living and can travel, and apparently doesn’t have genetic issues.

In the end I didn’t like the donor but didn’t like many of the women who benefited either. And there is diverging a little perverse about bashing the father of your kids.

I used a sperm donor. What attributes should we consider when selecting a donor? It's all physical characteristics. Yes you can sort by profession or education level but a lot of that is determined by the household the individual is raised in and it's not like the sperm bank is doing a background check on where you work or went to school. But if you check that you're blond/blue and the person standing in front of you is brown/brown, then you can see that the application is incorrect.

[Anonymous]

That's almost as many as Genghis Khan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Binged watch this yesterday and found it really interesting about a man who is an ultra popular and prolific sperm donor.

Obviously from a genetic standpoint it isn’t good to have so many offspring and I wouldn’t have been pleased to know that if I used donor sperm how many potential half siblings there were but I kept thinking the women were a bit superficial for choosing a popular donor who had blue eyes and “good hair”. And they were fine having second children with him but then didn’t want anyone else to use him as a donor. And many liked that he was willing not to be anonymous. The women from Australia weren’t happy but they signed an agreement they couldn’t get donor information until their child was 18.

I think you have to be a bit conceited to be a keen donor in a way since you have to think you are good enough that your genes should be passed on.

I thought there was going to be a catch about he was a carrier of a generic disease. All this show is going to do is make him more popular as a donor. He is willing to not be anonymous, he is outgoing, blond, blue eyes, seems reasonably intelligent if he can make a good living and can travel, and apparently doesn’t have genetic issues.

In the end I didn’t like the donor but didn’t like many of the women who benefited either. And there is diverging a little perverse about bashing the father of your kids.

I used a sperm donor. What attributes should we consider when selecting a donor? It's all physical characteristics. Yes you can sort by profession or education level but a lot of that is determined by the household the individual is raised in and it's not like the sperm bank is doing a background check on where you work or went to school. But if you check that you're blond/blue and the person standing in front of you is brown/brown, then you can see that the application is incorrect.

I wonder if sperm banks even consistently checked that out. I would worry much more about criminal and mental health history than "good hair". Here is an article about one sperm donor who has 36 children from The Atlantic:

To the mothers, he was just Donor 9623. They did not know his name, but from his glowing sperm-donor profile, they knew he had an IQ of 160, spoke four languages, was pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience engineering, and looked like Tom Cruise.

But Donor 9623 wasn’t who he said he was. He wasn’t in graduate school. He had never even finished college. The lies began to unravel in 2014, when the sperm bank accidentally revealed his name—Chris Aggeles—and his email address in a message to a group of mothers. By then, the sperm he’d produced over 14 years had been sent to multiple states and three countries, resulting in at least 36 children. Curious, the mothers Googled him and found a comment he’d left online about “hearing voices.” They later found out that he had been hospitalized for mental illness, had been on disability, was suicidal at one point, and pleaded guilty for burglary—all before or during the time he was donating sperm.

In a way then these moms all got lucky that they were able to meet Jonathan and that he is attractive, he has a seemingly good job, and is willing to be known. So many sperm donors are never willing to be known. I watched Jonathan's rebuttal on YouTube and he says he is going to sue Netflix because he claims the connection with Leon is not true. He also points out that most families have been pleased.

It is interesting because women get paid at least $5,000 or 10,000 for egg donation, while it is such a small sum for sperm donation. Obviously it is so much easier to be a sperm donor but I think many people would pay substantially more for a sperm donor who was fully vetted and agreed to be known when the children were over 18.

[Anonymous]

"neuroscience engineering" - sorry, this should have been a red flag