New sperm donor app lets you ‘order a daddy’ based on eye colour, profession and even RACE
If the user is interested, all they have to do is click on the sperm donors profile to see their medical information and their personality.
JUST when you thought you had seen it all - there is a new app that can let you pick a sperm donor based on their nationality, eye colour and even race.
The controversial app, called London Sperm Bank Donors, lets women create a 'wish list' alter that tells them when a donor they have their eye on becomes available.
Dubbed the 'order a daddy' app, it essentially lets women narrow down potential fathers.
It provides a list of donors complete with their physical characteristics.
If the user is interested, all they have to do is click on the sperm donors profile to see their medical information and their personality.
One donor said he "felt compelled to help others" while another decided to donate when close friends told him about their infertility problems.
Another is described as 'pleasant, charming and easy to get on with, this donor was a cheerful intellectual teeming with positivity' - just what you want in a donor father, really.
You can also find out what profession the donor works in.
Because job descriptions are hereditary, clearly.
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All this picking and choosing comes at a steep price though.
To get a sperm sample users must fork out £950 through the app, before it is sent to the fertility clinic where the woman is.
But while the app is legal and meets the IVF regulator's requirements, it has been criticised for trivialising parenthood.
Josephine Quintavalle, from the campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, told The Times: "How much further can we go in the trivialisation of parenthood? This is reproduction via the mobile phone.
";It’s digital dads. Choose Daddy. This is the ultimate denigration of fatherhood."
But Dr Kamal Ahuja, scientific director of the London Sperm Bank, defended the app and said: "You make all the transactions online, like you do anything else these days.
"This allows a woman who wants to get a sperm donor to gain control in the privacy of her own home and to choose and decide in her own time.
"We think this is the first of its kind in the world."