Saturday, August 22, 2009

Tell me this doesn't creep you out

CNN Health has posted an article about a Los Angeles sperm bank that catagorizes its donors by celebrity resemblance. No joke.

The lab is called California Cryobank and its Donor Look-a-Likes program allows future mommies to search their database based on the celebrity whom they'd like their chosen donor to resemble. Want your baby to look like Robert Downey Jr.? Here ya go. Search for David Beckham and you get the following donor profile:
"Heads turn when this green-eyed, blonde-haired, 6' tall dreamboat jogs by or swings a tennis racket. He complements his wide-ranging artistic talents, natural math skills, and athletic abilities with an outgoing personality and a good sense of humor. His life plans embrace world travel, a big family, and a talent-based career which will never feel like work. He's a natural leader with deep respect for foreign cultures."
You can even request that your donor look like Bill Gates. So that even though your baby won't necessarily be rich-- he or she will sure look rich? God, that is just weird. I don't know about you, but to me it sounds an awful lot like genetically engineering your children. Creepy, right?

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