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Reflections: Donating sperm

by Todd Daigneault

Donating sperm can be a very rewarding and positive experience...For me, i stepped away from the cold, sterile, unfeeling, for profit sperm banks, to be kind of a 'sperm-donating renegade'. I had been declined as a sperm donor in the banks, due to what was perceived as 'mystifying thinking'. It was never out of being inadequate, for my IQ was exceptionally high, my health very good, and my body in very good shape. The first bank wouldn't even talk to me, so I declined going to further banks. That was way back in the early 1990's-with where I was at the time, the thinking behind the first bank's denial was indeed quite strange. Even if it was a mistake on their behalf, it was enough for me to be turned off from the concept of sperm banks forever, which was a cruel misnomer for 'robbing people of their monies'.

Years passed, and I had the opportunity to help my first recipient of my sperm: a young, unmarried woman, with whom I had alreadsy a relationship, albeit non-sexual. We were good friends from a local grocery store I frequented. She was a cashier: beautiful with long golden tresses of hair, sparkling blue eyes and white skin that seemed to glow. She asked to speak with me privately at her home, presenting me with the offer for me to impregnate her without any strings-certainly no marriage or other similar relationship. Nine months later and we had a baby boy and girl: twins.

Still somewhat elated and excited by the experience, I helped several other female friends become pregnant with my gift. Years would pass before an opportunity of a lifetime would emerge: donating through the Internet. It started with me joining a series of small groups scattered across the Internet-where donors and recipients would come together and produce children. Years later, I grew to moderate and even create a number of these groups, helping hundreds through moderations, and doing a number of donations all arranged through the comfort and ease of my computer at home.

It has been several years of doing this through the Internet. As moderator and group owner, I, along with my other moderators brought a sense of order to something that could easily become chaotic. For sperm donating can be extremely complicated, with bringing in literally strangers, and ultimately some with not of the best intentions. We saw the fruits of our labor with a well-organized series of groups, that brought a sensible, planned and methodical way for woman to safely become pregnant, without the fear of disease, maniacs, or other denizens of the night.

Sperm donating can be a rewarding experience, whether one does it through the bank or not. However, the Internet has opened up a new dimension for donors and recipients alike. With minimal costs, a woman can find the donor she likes and become pregnant through non-sexual or sexual means. But for anybody to donate, it takes kindness and genuine compassion. It takes a person of no ego to do it. It also means maybe limited or no-contact with your offspring. Many men ascribe to be donors, but only a few men are chosen literally and metaphorically to donate in the first place.

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