A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook profile page, but then this is no mundane corner of the internet. The group where Rod and other men advertise themselves is a community where women and couples come, in many cases, to fulfil a lifelong dream: parenthood.
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Membership of groups such as Sperm Donors UK, Start a Family Here and “Get Your BABYDUST Here!” are thriving. This is due, in part, to the prohibitive cost of the official route ….
Felicity … divorced with one child and wanting another, joined the Start a Family Here group five or six years ago.
“My daughter had been IVF due to male infertility – that was an awful experience … I didn’t want to go through with it again,” she says.
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When she first joined the group, it was “pretty quiet, just a few posts each week from people looking for a donor”.
“Suddenly there were thousands of young women aged 18 to 25 joining and membership went up to 10,000 within a year,” she said.
