Recently, the topic of "sperm donation" proposals issued by human sperm banks in many places has attracted public attention.
According to the reporter's incomplete review, since February 9, many provinces and cities including Yunnan, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Beijing have issued proposals for "sperm donation".
"The launch of the sperm donation initiative has indeed attracted many young people to consult, and the phone calls have exploded in the past two days." A staff member of the Shaanxi Provincial Human Sperm Bank told reporters that the number of people calling to consult about sperm donation has increased recently. The WeChat public account of the Shaanxi Provincial Human Sperm Bank was once in a state of "explosive increase" in fans.
A chemical practitioner chooses "frozen semen"
After informing the woman, the blind date failed many times
According to the official website of the Beijing Human Sperm Bank, the sperm bank is mainly used to provide reproductive insurance, benefit human eugenics, provide effective means for some male infertility patients, and carry out related scientific research.
In October 2018, Mr. Chen, then 27, froze sperm for himself in his hometown of Jinan.
At that time, he had been engaged in chemical testing for more than a year, and he was worried that he would suffer from asthenospermia due to work.
In order not to affect future fertility, he went to the local human sperm bank with the support of his family and froze his own sperm in advance.
The frozen sperm chosen by Mr. Chen, also known as self-sperm preservation in medicine, means that the semen is taken out of the body in advance, processed and frozen in liquid nitrogen (-196°C) in the sperm bank, and used after recovery when needed, so that the application It is possible for the preservers to obtain their own offspring through assisted reproductive technology (artificial insemination or test-tube baby technology).
According to the conditions set by the National Health and Medical Commission for self-sperm preservation, people for the purpose of "reproductive insurance" have the right to freeze sperm in advance.
This part of the population includes two categories.
One is for those who need to preserve sperm for future childbearing; the other is for men who need to preserve sperm for future childbearing before they receive teratogenic doses of radiation, drugs, toxic substances, and sterilization operations, or when the husband and wife live apart for a long time and need to preserve sperm for future childbearing. semen.
However, Mr. Chen has still not been able to get married so far.
During the blind date, whenever he told the woman that the industry he was engaged in might affect fertility and that he had frozen sperm in advance, the other party would mostly express his mind.
"I hope everyone can have a more scientific understanding of frozen sperm. In fact, this is not a shameful thing."
Only 20% of college students pass sperm donation?
Sperm Bank Staff:
The pass rate is above 70%
Since the establishment of the first sperm bank in my country in the early 1980s, according to data from the National Health and Medical Commission, as of the end of June 2021, the number of medical institutions approved to carry out human assisted reproductive technology has increased from 451 to 539. The number of medical institutions setting up human sperm banks has increased from 23 to 27.
Sperm banks have been established in my country for more than 40 years, but so far, whether it is donating sperm or freezing sperm, it is still a new thing that "talks about it" to the public.
The staff of the Shaanxi Provincial Human Sperm Bank told reporters that the Shaanxi Provincial Human Sperm Bank can only complete the sperm donation process once, and cannot repeat sperm donation.
"A privacy agreement will be signed before sperm donation, and we will also conduct strict testing, so there will be no risk of close relatives, and there will be no privacy leaks."
According to previous media reports, the pass rate of sperm donation for college students is only 20%.
To this, the staff of the Human Sperm Bank in Shaanxi Province gave a negative answer.
"If sperm donation volunteers follow the precautions we have given, according to our statistics, the pass rate of college student donors can reach 70-80%."
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yang Yuqi intern reporter Fu Yao intern Miao Rui