This happens constantly in this industry and something like this is even the story of the first ever donor sperm pregnancyhttps://twitter.com/deray/status/1340062765541715969 …
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Jefferson Medical College in 1884, Philadelphia Woman came in with a difficult case of infertility Doctor in charge of her case quickly figured out the issue was probably the husband being infertile, but saying so would've badly offended/shamed him
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So instead, as doctors did back then, they decided to try something without telling the patient Gathered all the men around at the time to pick the best-looking/healthiest-seeming one (who looked passably like the husband)
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The young intern jerked off into a cup and they injected the patient with his sperm without actually telling her or her husband what was going on Sure enough the "infertility treatment" worked and she conceived soon after
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The reason we know this story is because a doctor at the college wrote it in his memoirs to be released after his death, even though all the men in the room had been sworn to secrecy He'd gone back to check on the lady's son several times through his life just to make sure
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It's pretty obvious, even though he never says it, that the author of the memoir was the intern in the story and was the baby's biological father
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Anyway that's just to say we only know this story because the guy violated his oath because he felt the need to unburden his conscience, because he broke the first rule of anonymous sperm donation and got attached to the kid So who knows how many times this used to happen
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Anyway even with the modern sperm donation industry where we've gone to great lengths to try to cobble together a transparent, ethical system for finding donors that still protects everyone's privacy, the cost and labor of doing so is enormous The temptation to cheat is huge
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Arguably if you go back to ancient times this has always been going on Like the cult of Glycon (the snake god Alan Moore decided he worships as an edgelord thing) told barren women they could "cure their infertility" by having ritual sex with the high priest
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Replying to @arthur_affect
im deeply confused as to how you know all this information, but that's interesting as fuck.
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The book The Genius Factory by David Plotz is a great read (about the history of fertility medicine in general but specifically the weird eugenicist project of the "Nobel Prize sperm bank" from the 80s)
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