When women want a child, some will go to any lengths in searching online for just the right sperm donor, Jennifer Egan writes in the New York Times Magazine Wanted: A Few Good Sperm.
Daniela said
"I would probably choose somebody with a darker skin color so I don't have to slather sunblock on my kid all the time. I want it to be a healthy mix. You know how mixed dogs are always the nicest and the friendliest and the healthiest? If you get a clear race, they have all the problems. Mutts are always the friendly ones, the intelligent ones, the ones who don't bark and have a good character. I want a mutt."
A Jewish woman didn't like the potential Jewish donors she saw online
"Everybody either had glasses, they're balding or their grandmother was diabetic and had heart disease"
so she picked a
"typical Aryan perfect human being,"
Germans apparently are prolific sperm donors. The Aryan bodybuilder the aforementioned Jewish woman chose has fathered 21 children including four sets of twins. The families of these children have their own listserv and are planning a group vacation in 2007. For one mother who's concerned about who will take care of her child if she dies prematurely, the listserv is kin, and perhaps the best place she can find a guardian.
The children, I fear, will be genetically bewildered, lacking a complete sense of their identity.