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The Story

Sex with your sister: true stories of the sperm superdonors

The Story

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“I’ll just go and get some fresh seed” - we reveal growing concerns about mass sperm donation. One man found his father ran a corrupt fertility clinic, providing patients with samples of his own sperm. Another man discovered he has 50 children all over Europe. There has been at least one case of accidental incest. The growing scandal has provoked widespread horror in the Netherlands.


This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Guest: Senay Boztas

Host: Manveen Rana 

Producer: Shabnam Grewal 

Further reading: I am a father of 50 children, a new one gets in touch almost every week

Clips: WSJ.com, Times Radio, The Immaculate Deception - Somethin’ Else/ Sony Music Entertainment, Bloomberg, Youtube.com/@masteringknowledge 

Photo: Getty images

Get in touch: [email protected]     




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Transcript

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0:00.0

From the Times and the Sunday times, this is the story.

0:06.4

I'm Manvine Rana.

0:12.4

Most parents want their kids to do well, to be happy.

0:16.8

So in many ways, this man from from the Netherlands, should be perfectly normal.

0:23.6

They are coming now to visit me and they are very proud.

0:27.6

They're very beautiful children, too very good school.

0:32.6

They are happy.

0:35.6

But what isn't so normal is that he didn't know he had any children.

0:41.4

And now he has 50 of them, with mothers he's never met, somewhere out there in the world.

0:50.3

But it is quite a lot.

0:53.9

Nico is one of many men who donated sperm in the Netherlands anonymously,

1:00.0

and have now learnt that the clinics were ignoring the guidelines and selling the sperm on to legions of women.

1:08.0

Nico has unwittingly spawned an entire tribe of children.

1:13.6

It is playing with life and it is absolutely forbidden.

1:20.6

What happens when these children meet? What if they fall in love with each other

1:26.6

without realizing their siblings?

1:29.3

And what are the ethics of allowing some men to have tens or even hundreds of children

1:36.3

carrying their DNA into the future? After all, it's what some tech titans have been trying to achieve for years.

1:45.5

If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble.

1:49.0

Mark my words.

1:50.9

Is this why you have so many children?

1:53.4

I'm trying to say a good example.

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