If you're seriously considering donating sperm or eggs, check out
http://www.surromomsonline.com/
Rather then work through a sperm/egg bank, you will be directly in contact
with the person you'll be donating to.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Are there smartdrugs?
>> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>>
>> > [...] I think one of the most valuable contributions any
>> > of us could make to the future is to breed like rabbits,
>> > and fight harder to blast the silly myth of overpopulation
>> > that prevents otherwise intelligent men and women from
>> > doing the same.
>>
>> Why not take a trip to the local sperm bank and donate some
>> of those good Extropian genes?
>
>I thought of that, but unfortunately I'm not an ideal candidate.
>To a sperm bank and their consumers, IQ isn't everything. I do
>have that going for me, and I'm tall, generally fit, and don't
>have any genetic diseases that I know about (there is some
>evidence that Meniere's disease is heritable but it is weak).
>But the bank wants someone with a very high sperm count so
>inseminations are more successful, and the consumers want donors
>with a wide variety of desirable traits and absence of bad ones.
>For instance, they like athletic ability and some evidence of
>industry and ambition (such as business or academic achievement).
>I score low on both those scales. I can also nearly guarantee a
>son that will be bald when he's 30, and with a strong likelihood
>of heart problems (I somehow managed to avoid the family heart
>problems so far--no such luck with the hairline). And of course
>with artifical insemination, I can't take advantage of my
>abundant sexual talents. :)
>
>My best chances for procreation are going to be doing it the
>old fashioned way: charming the pants off a woman who likes
>computer nerds.
>
>--
>Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
>"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
>are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
>for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC