like we discussed yesterday
there's a lot of men donating to cryobanks (read sperm)
so with all that sperm flying around out there
what's the problem...
it's that today, and in the future, kids don't know their
biological parents, and some suggest, this is a bad thing
the use of donor sperm for human conception can be traced
back to the 18th century, but it wasn't until the early 20th
that efforts to freeze, store and thaw sperm began
in 1949, scientists discovered a technique for freezing
semen with glycerol, that proved less likely to injure sperm
but it was work in cryobiology, the study of organisms
and cells at sub-zero temperatures, that took earlier
scientific efforts to new levels and made the banks thrive
in 1953, the world's first sperm bank was opened
initially under the name the very first national bank of
a bad ass tadpole that's gotta be corralled in a vault
the name was too long and kinda bad ass
- that's how things were in the early fifties
they soon changed it to the cryobank
so nobody knew what it was or what they where doing
and it was from that pioneering bank that the first human
birth from cryopreserved sperm was recorded
however, it took two more decades for the idea of
sperm banks and free ejaculate for all to become
culturally acceptable along with baseball caps being
worn sideways, low rider jeans and top 40 voodoo music
it took until the time of rock 'n' roll and drugs and free sex
for society to be ready to except homosexuality and the
liberated (who needs men) women and rhoda
for the sperm bank to be accepted by the culture
our culture seems to follow a well known downward curve
the culture loses culture when the people lose their sense
of purpose, soundness and lineage - that's right, family
and it's known, the less family, the more voodoo
