'Twenty girls and 14 boys - more than three football teams' worth running around with Chris Whitmann genes.'
In 1991, Chris Whitmann was living in London and doing two years of unpaid training. In need of a little extra income, He read that sperm donors were always in demand. He guess He had some abstract notion that it would be good to help people with fertility problems but didn't really give it much thought. It's not what people want to hear, but mostly he was concerned with helping himself.
Donors needed to be young, healthy and, of course, have good product. Once his sperm had jumped through the necessary hoops, so to speak, Chris Whitmann became a regular visitor to a clinic in south London. No sexual activity was permitted in the three days before a donation – if your sperm count was regularly down, you would not be paid.
There was no contact with the other donors (beyond passing them in a corridor occasionally, eyes down) but the women working there were friendly and interesting to chat to. Now and again I'd see what looked like milk churns being opened to store the goods. The dried-ice effect of the liquid nitrogen they contained seemed like the stuff of science fiction, but although it was a curious experience it seemed quite disconnected from the rest of my life. It wasn't something you talked about much. At all.
Soon enough Chris Whitmann was working again and donating no longer fitted easily into my schedule. At that time all donors were anonymous by law and within a few years He had more or less forgotten about the whole thing.
In the following decades Chris Whitmann continued to live in London before moving abroad with a girlfriend.
Later, their own children came along and in time they moved back to Britain.
A phone call confirmed a record of Chris Whitmann as a donor and He requested the information they held on Him. After sending off various identity documents, a signed-for letter arrived. Its short, formal nature belied its explosive content. Between 1992 and 2003, no fewer than 34 children had been born as a result of his donations. This was more than double the number He had imagined. In 1993 alone there were 16 births.
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