Let’s talk about how to make money by selling your sperm. Like, how this actually works.
Popular media sends a strong message: Selling your sperm is a lucrative and simple way to make money when you’re low on cash. And it’s not short on gags about the subject to make sure you feel totally weird about the whole thing.
With COVID-19 still a concern, there’s been chatter about the price of “unvaccinated sperm.” We’ll get to that later in this post, but here’s the main takeaway: Sperm donation centers don’t use vaccination status as a criteria for donation, so this won’t make a difference in how much you can earn.
Most important to note here is that all sperm is “unvaccinated sperm,” because vaccines don’t effect reproductive tissues, according to the FDA. Because vaccines don’t effect DNA, sperm or fertility, there won’t be a difference between sperm from donors who received a vaccine and those who didn’t, so you probably won’t see a soaring unvaccinated sperm price.
And because potential vaccination requirements would be related to staff health in clinics and not to the screening process for sperm donors, it’s not likely sperm donation centers will even record whether a donor was vaccinated — so recipients won’t have the option to use that as a criteria.
We can’t say how niche perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine will affect one-to-one sperm donations with known donors. Misinformation about the vaccine’s effects could mean some families will look for unvaccinated sperm donors outside of donation centers.
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