Are sperm donors really so different from other volunteers?

Why are we so suspicious of sperm donors? Are they really so different from kidney donors, fire fighters, church elders and other people who do what they consider to be "a good thing"?

This week's item explores our complicated feelings towards sperm donors.

I'd also like to invite you to attend an online event, also on this theme, part of the University of Waterloo's 2024-25 Politics of Reproduction Speakers' Series. During the lunch-time seminar, I will be in conversation with three sperm donors about what it was or is like to be a donor.

Are sperm donors so different from other volunteers?

Friday Oct 4, 2024

12-1pm Eastern time