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OK, let me start off that while I am glad to hear that clinics in the UK are being creative in their quest to find new avenues to find sperm donors this one, for me personally, crossed a line. For a future donor conceived individual to ever learn that their biological parent started down the road to their creation due to his reading an ad possibly over the urinal is pushing it. I know I joined the "Don't be a Wanker" campaign to help support new ideas but the association between urinal and creation I find distasteful.
The Independent
By Sophie Goodchild
Published: 19 November 2006
Excerpts:
Fertility clinics are to advertise for potential sperm donors in men's toilets for the first time in an attempt to help couples desperate to have children.
The shortage in recruits has forced one clinic in the West Midlands to display posters above public urinals urging men to sign up.
Midland Fertility Services, near Birmingham, is targeting 18- to 45-year-olds with its campaign, which launches this month, through appeals in the gents at Walsall Football Club as well as in fire and ambulance stations."
Dr Gillian Lockwood, the clinic's medical director, said: "The removal of anonymity has had a direct impact on sperm donation. We want to attract older men who may already have families with quality sperm who are motivated by altruism."
Eric,
ReplyDeleteSorry to say that I disagree with you. I can see your point but I don't see that it matters where the idea is planted in someone's head to consider becoming a donor. It only matters that more donors are needed and this is a way to get that message across.
Elle is right, this is just about making people think about it and that has to be a good thing.
Richard
You are both absolutely correct that a potential donor in all probability does not make their decision while standing at the urinal. And that of course the idea is to get creative and get the message out there.
ReplyDeleteI defend myuse of the phrase "but the association between urinal and creation I find distasteful" as it was my hoomest reaction. I certainly didn't make it to condemn the goal behind it. You two know me well enough to know that. Although I can see now the phrase being taken that way.