Women Surfing for Super Sperm

  LONDON - Britain is facing a sperm donor shortage after reversing confidentiality laws and limiting the number of women who can use sperm from one donor, fertility experts warned Wednesday.

Britain in 2005 changed the law protecting anonymous sperm donors and allowed children to learn the identity of donor fathers — one reason, fertility experts say, there are fewer donors now.

“The only countries that seem to have enough sperm are those that pay — like the U.S. and Spain — or the countries that retain anonymity,” said Allan Pacey, a member of the British Fertility Society that warned of the shortage in the British Medical Journal.

In the same way that some nations have oil fields or bread mountains, Denmark boasts an ever-growing sperm lake.

...In the hallway there is a chandelier of sperm-shaped bulbs; on the walls are hundreds of photographs of blonde blue-eyed babies. IVF treatment in this place of candles, rugs and pine floors will cost about £4,000. There are no waiting lists.

It may seem counterintuitive to those males among us who spent more time in high school reading Dickens or studying calculus than we did making out with Stephanie the cheerleader, but a group of researchers has issued a study finding that higher IQ men have better sperm.

Women could one day grow their own sperm, says a scientist who today claims to have turned bone marrow into early-stage sperm cells.

  A U.S. fertility clinic is courting controversy that it is wading into the realm of "designer babies" after announcing recently that it can help expectant parents choose the genetic traits of their future children.

Fertility Institutes says it will soon offer a service to help couples select both their baby's gender and physical traits, such as eye or hair colour, using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD.

  At 46, with a brand new hip and no man at the ready, Clarkson has spent weeks shopping online, wading through pages and pages of detailed profiles of men who are paid to ejaculate a few times a week into a cup at a clinic.

Not only is he returning to racing, but he's also gonna be a dad for the fourth time.

Lance Armstrong has super sperm!

..."Lance and Anna [Hansen] have been quietly dating since July," a source tells us. "They met through Lance's charity work. Anna works at a non-profit for cancer survivors."

A New York woman has won a race-against-the-clock legal bid to harvest her dead fiance's sperm.

Gisela Marrero told a Bronx court her partner had spoken about having another child with her only the day before his death from a suspected heart attack.

She had only 36 hours to collect 31-year-old Johnny Quintana's semen before it would have become unusable.

As the couple were unmarried she needed a court order, which was granted just four hours before the deadline.