Men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were paid up to £35 per clinic visit to cover expenses such as travel. It is illegal to pay to donate sperm.
EXCLUSIVE: As nativity stories go, it could hardly be more modern, more brave or more touching. Devoted couple Emily Patrick and Kerry Osborn are pregnant with each other’s babies.
Sperm and egg donors could soon be identified as soon as the child is born, if proposed changes to the law suggested by a watchdog are approved. Currently children must wait until they are 18.
Residents in one area of New York are literally having a whale of a time this Christmas after chunks of sperm whale washed up on their streets during Storm Elliott.
MAIL ON SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Clive Jones, 67, claims to have fathered 140 children through the sperm donation service he has run through Facebook over the past decade.
FRANCES HARDY: Leah is almost four, but her vocabulary is that of a much younger child. So delayed is her speech she can still say only a few words, one of which – helpfully – is Mum.