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Beskrivelse
Media stories about sperm donors are often framed as a matter of selfishness: the young student earning some money while having fun. At the same time sperm banks’ rhetoric refers to the selfless donor who thinks first and foremost about helping others. This seeming paradox of the selfish-selfless donor is reflected in an amounting literature on the motivations of sperm donors – mostly quantitative inquiries about whether men donate their sperm for money or in order to help people in need. The question that is hardly ever addressed though in relation to this is if there actually is something such as a motivation to begin with. As part of my argument I engage my empirical material with the question of the motivations of sperm donors anew. In doing so I do not ground my premises in the assumption that there are clearly definable motivations for why men donate their sperm, but rather in an ethnographic willingness to explore how men came to donate their sperm and what it is that enables them to continue to do so.
Periode
28 jun. 2013
Begivenhedstitel
Selfishness and Selflessness in History and Anthropology