A sperm bank in Australia hit the jackpot with its promotion to lure donors Down Under.
The Reproductive Medicine Centre ran an ad in a student newspaper in Calgary, Canada, offering a free two-week trip to Australia in exchange for sperm donations. It has had a flood of responses, some from as far as Russia and Ukraine, according to a Sydney news report.
Donors get a travel package worth $5,180, including airfare and two weeks’ accommodation. In exchange, they must donate sperm every other day and allow their identity be revealed to any potential offspring, per the news report. (A pending law that will allow kids to know the identity of both parents has kept Australian donors away.) The sperm bank director told the Sydney newspaper that there’s enough demand to cover the cost of importing donations.
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