So, I’m eating my lunch and reading an NYT article about Danish sperm banks, and one paragraph positively leaps out at me as yet another reason to move to Copenhagen:
In Denmark, sperm banking has become a powerhouse industry for several reasons: it has a high success rate in producing offspring; its culture, which is famously secular and sexually liberal, holds an uncomplicated view of sperm donation; and its laws continue to protect a donor’s anonymity.
Oh, how I long to live in a country that is famously secular and sexually liberal! Plus, everyone speaks three languages! And all that cheese!
Then I get to this part: “Denmark, despite its sexual permissiveness, has a law barring unmarried women from buying sperm from a doctor.”
Personally, I don’t get the turkey-baster method of offspring procurement when there are millions of orphaned children in the world, but dammit, if you want a freeze-dried Thor, you should be able to get one.
Of course, even an arctic, Thor-free, single-girl environment beats the heck out of a country whose slack-jawed, right-wing, war-mongering president is described as having the “moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet” in a recent documentary.
But I digress. Speaking of Danish things, how about “Festen” on the West End? The movie is one of my all-time favorites. I just bought it on DVD, in fact. Anyway, who doesn’t love a stirring tale of incest and suicide?!
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