I thought I’d go ahead and find some videos to help spread the word about donating sperm and how much fun it is, how you help out folks that are looking to start a family, and how you can make some spare money from it…BUT all I ended up finding were funny TV commercials (most actually more lame than funny) …what is with our world and making fun of sperm donation?…well (lol) yeah I guess it is pretty hilarious!

I’ll go ahead and comment after each one of these videos so you know what you are getting yourself into Otherwise enjoy the videos and keep on donating!

lol, I’m still laughing at how lame this one is…so these burglers break into a bank vault and steal the sperm…drinking it and thinking it is yogurt…okay fair I see it…haha…but what is even funnier is why is this a commerical for an eye doctor…huh? Its like they took a stock commerical and added their little eye care clinic at the end…ah I hope spotrunner doesn’t resort to this…

okay…so this one is all about how this choad slacker dude’s sperm is not used and the old slimy doctors is…huh? Am I missing something here? Our slacker hero kisses the girl but then the doctor gets busy…and then we learn that we should drink at this Irish pub…hmm, wonder how that ad is working out for them?

this is a TV commercial that shows some dude trying to donate using conventional means and having to resort to a picture of a motocycle…ha ha, I get it…still lame!

This one is kind of cute…I suppose, this young small dumpy looking asian man donates sperm in such a large quantity that he gets an admirer that wants him to fill up a larger container?…okay, I don’t fully understand what is going on here, but visually it is kind of funny…

This is not a TV commerical…finally…but…WARNING: this dude is super annoying, but I’ll give credit where credit is due…he does an okay job of showing you the behind the scenes view of a typical donation center (like the liquid nitrogen tanks and such)

2216 Hoffman Dr. Unit B
Loveland, (near Denver) Colorado. USA.
80538

Phone Number: 800-473-9601
http://www.cryogam.com/

How to become a sperm donor in Colorado?

Three steps to becoming an anonymous sperm donor, here they are:

1. Fill out personal and family health history, initial interview and semen evaluation.
2. Second semen evaluation (done one week later).
3. Third semen evaluation (done one week later).

If you pass the first three steps you are given a complete physical at which time we screen for all sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. If you pass this step you are accepted into the program.
Note the piece of mind you get from being tested for HIV and other disesases. Just another bonus for being in the planned family vertical.

Duration of Contract
We ask for a once a week commitment for at least 6 months to a year. If you are unable to give this please do not waste your time and ours by going through the qualifying process. Once accepted into the program we request that you abstain from all sexual activity for 3 days prior to each visit. When we say 3 days, we mean 3 days. This will give the body time to replenish the sperm count. Yeah, 3 days is kind of a long time, if you know what you are doing you can get this down to 48 hours. You just need to drink and eat well and exercise and you sperm count will be high enough to be useful.

Denver Area Medical Office Locations
Our main office is in Loveland and is open Monday thru Friday. Our Denver office is open on Tuesday mornings only and our Boulder office is open Wednesday mornings only. Please call for hours and locations. Give these doctors a call at 800-473-9601 to find out where these other offices are at and if you can get an appointment to see them.

For what reason do men freeze their sperm?
Men who face the prospect of sterilization or an injury to the reproductive system store their sperm. Sterilization may be voluntary, as in, for example, vasectomy, or involuntary, in association with, for example, certain chemotherapies that have a side effect of dramatically reducing the production of sperm in the testes. Radiation exposure, surgery, and high-risk environmental exposure are other reasons. Some men prefer to store their sperm as insurance against a future in which there can be no guarantees that their reproductive health will not be jeopardized unknowingly.

Also, for private cryo-storage needs:
Sperm Storage:
Annual Storage, per client…………………………………….$200.00
3-year storage plan……………………………………………….$375.00
5-year storage plan……………………………………………….$505.00
Inventory fee, per order received………………………….$25.00
Packaging and Handling, per order shipped………..$30.00
Shipping, per Liquid Nitrogen tank………………………$130.00

This bank is located just over in the Virginia side of the Washington DC area. The Fairfax folks have expanded their operations across the nation, but this is their original place. They offer a ton of services, including freezing your own sperm…give em a call and see how you can work together!

Preliminary Evaluation:
All sperm donor applicants must be 18 to 39 years of age. Each applicant is required to complete an application form that includes a medical and genetic history of the applicant and family members, and a consent and specimen release document. Each application is reviewed during a personal interview with the applicant. Applicants who are not in a high risk group for contracting AIDS and have no past history of infectious transmissible diseases are required to submit a minimum of two sperm specimens for analysis.

All Donors are tested for:

Chromosome Analysis (karyotype)
Cystic Fibrosis (min. 86 mutations)

Personality Testing:

Yeah they don testing to make sure your not some psycho…but aren’t we all a little crazy

The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II® (KTS®-II) is a powerful personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. Based on Dr. David Keirsey’s Temperament theory, this instrument has helped over 30 million people worldwide gain insight into themselves and the people around them. This insight is especially useful when entering a relationship or relating to family members.

How to get into this as a Paid Sperm Donor

They won’t tell me how much they pay the donors, but I’d imagine its between 50-100 per donation. Give them a call and don’t settle for anything less, you are worth it…below are the steps to make it happen!

If you qualify, the laboratory supervisor will contact you for an interview. The interview is the first part of the screening process, which can be completed in four weeks. Interviews are conducted Monday - Fridays between 8:00 AM - 12:00 Noon. At the time of the interview, the laboratory supervisor will review your application with you, explain the anonymous donor program in its entirety, answer any questions you may have, and ask you to produce a specimen.

Welcome to your Sperm Donation info Center at the spermbanker.com!

The reason for this site is two fold:

Provide a local listing of sperm banks

Its quite hard to find a sperm bank in your local area. So I decided to put together a list of all the banks in one place for everyone. This way a potential donor can call up all the banks in their area and find one that works for them.

make a community site for folks to leave feedback on the banks

I thought it would be nice if REAL donors could comment on what they liked about various banks and give current info on pay rates and such. This way the potential donor can hear from the past donors what the true story is at a particular bank.

Hope this makes sense. Tell a friend about our humble site.

We’d love to post more information about other cities or the ones we have listed. Email me at phil at spermbanker.com .

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ps: Do you know of a worthwhile bank that we need to list on our site? Use our Submit a Sperm Bank form to get listed on SpermBanker®

This sperm bank is a good one in Boston. Although the program doesn’t exactly say where they are (they want it this way or I would give you guys the sperm donation center’s address). They do say that they are in Brookline, MASS. Call them right now for more information on there whereabouts at: (800) 991-4999

Anywho, the NECC requirements are pretty impressive, here they are:

• Between the ages of 18 and 38
• 5’8” to 6’4” in height
• A college student or graduate
• Able to commit to frequent on-site visits at our Brookline, MA. Sperm Donation Collection Center.

The NECC is very confidential, which is a plus for most donors:
“Participation in NECC’s sperm donor program, as well as all information provided to us, is held in the strictest confidence. Communication with donors is conducted with ultimate discretion, and the identity of a donor is never provided to a client, unless the donor explicitly gives his permission.”

Another great thing abou this sperm bank is that they are accredited.

American Association of Bioanalysts
American Association of Tissue Banks
Society for Cryobiology
American Association of Blood Banks

Massachusetts Department of Health
Licensed/Inspected, License #2337
CLIA ‘88
Certification #22D0725005

All in all here is the best thing about this sperm donation program:
Sperm donors receive $85 for each viable specimen. ….enjoy!

This sperm bank is located near downtown and the actual location can be found by calling 412-687-0358

The requirements for this cryo center is more then the rest. They have you take many more tests and commit to a 1 year agreement. The age group they accept is from 18-40, which is fairly common in the sperm donor industry.

To become a donor you’ll have to pass many tests on your health, including your blood and mental and physical abilities.

The payment for this program is dependant on your situation, so remember to start real high in the salary negociation and then work you way down if you are desparate!

Some more info on this sperm bank:

Ages 18-40
1 year commintment
6 samples per month ( you’ll have to time you sexual release if you want to enjoy a partner as well
All appointments are scheduled, no walk ins. (this is really standard in the semen collection industry)
2-5 days of abstinence is required per donation (1.5 if you are really really active)
Appointments take 45 min. (sounds a little long for me
Monday –Thursday 8:00am -2pm

More infomation on this sperm bank: 412-687-0358

This sperm donation center is located about 4 miles from the Ohio State Campus. Unfortunately, they don’t want people to know where they are at, so that is the only description we can give. Feel free to call them and they will let you know about the sperm bank location.

This sperm cryobank has a great annonymous donation program. They pay 40-55$ per donation depending on the lvl you qualify at. They only accept donors between 18-40 years old.

The Cryobiology process involves blood and many oter general tests and then a screening and interviewing process with other non-medical tests involved. Also you family history and medical records need to be examined for them to accept you as an annonymous sperm donor.

Here are some more quick facts on this sperm bank:

Ages: 18-40
Pays: 40-55 $

Required to provide 2-3 semen samples, which you won’t be paid for. (this is part of the testing process)

Must be available to donate sperm for 9 months.

Phone number: 614-451-4375
hours: 8:30- 4pm Monday –Friday

Unlike sperm and embryos, oocytes did not survive the
freeze/thaw process well, primarily because the egg is the
largest cell in the human body and comprised mostly of water.
The water inside the cell forms ice crystals that destroy the
egg during the traditional freezing process. Prior to 2002, the
success rate of live births from frozen eggs was 1-3% globally,
with few babies born from frozen eggs over decades of attempts.

Fortunately, a number of advances in our knowledge of oocyte
physiology and laboratory techniques are rapidly changing this
dream into a reality.

The ability to preserve unfertilized oocytes is profound if one
looks at the potential benefits and some of the controversies
surrounding reproductive medicine. Egg-freezing should appeal to
a broad range of women. Ultimately, the common factors that link
all of these women are the strong desire to have a family and
the willingness to take proactive steps to give themselves the
best odds possible.

1. While some couples are comfortable with the concept of embryo
freezing, many have moral and ethical dilemmas regarding this
issue. For those that believe that life is created at the moment
of conception, each frozen embryo represents a life and, if
unused, a life unfulfilled. Oocyte cryopreservation, like sperm
cryopreservation, presents us with the possible opportunity to
preserve one’s fertility while avoiding these ethical dilemmas.

2. Oocyte cryopreservation provides young women facing
chemotherapy or irradiation for treatment of life-threatening
disease, such as cancer, the opportunity to preserve their
fertility. The importance of this cannot be understated.
Treatment regimens for many of the malignancies faced by
adolescents and young adults result in the destruction of their
gametes (sperm or eggs). The advancements in cancer treatments
are also ensuring that many of these cancer survivors are living
long, productive lives. Thus, the opportunity to preserve their
ability to have children later in life is critical.

3. The professional and personal opportunities for women have
exploded over the past 30 years, encouraging many women to
postpone motherhood. Unfortunately, the biology of female eggs
hasn’t kept pace and women often face challenges starting their
families later in life. Women, who are born with a limited
supply of eggs, start to experience diminished fertility rates
in the late twenties and this rapidly accelerates as they reach
their mid-thirties. Childlessness is one of the biggest concerns
for professional women. Studies show that the majority of the
33% of high-achieving women that are childless at ages 41-55 did
not choose to be childless. In fact, more than a quarter of
high-achieving women in the 41-55 year old age group said they
would still like to have children. For women in this category,
the ability to preserve their eggs (and thus their future
fertility) gives them more flexibility as to when they can start
their families.

4. Oocyte cryopreservation will allow those who need to resort
to egg donation (the use of someone else’s eggs due to the
diminished fertility potential of their own eggs) more
affordable treatment options. Today, when a couple chooses to
use donor eggs, they must bear the cost of the entire donor’s
IVF cycle alone. The ability to use only the limited number of
eggs necessary while freezing the unused eggs will allow couples
using donor’s eggs to cut their expenses dramatically. This will
allow individuals who were unable to afford such services the
opportunity to pursue having children.

Techniques Given the magnitude of the need, clinicians around
the world have raced to develop a technique for successful
egg-freezing, and beginning in 2002, promising results ranging
from 20-40% successful pregnancy rate (on par with a woman’s
natural peak fertility rate) were published. The key difference
over previous techniques was the change in cryoprotectants used
to protect the egg during the freezing process. Cryoprotectant
acts as an “antifreeze” to protect the delicate egg as the
temperature drops.

Before attempting to understand how our ability to cryopreserve
unfertilized eggs has been achieved, it is important to
understand how sperm and embryo (fertilized oocytes)
cryopreservation has long been commonplace. The major problem
faced in freezing a cell is to minimize damage to the membranes
induced by ice crystal formation. Intracellular ice formation is
dangerous because it may rupture the cell membranes causing
cellular destruction. The smaller the cell, the less likely ice
crystal formation will occur.

Sperm cells are about 180th the size of a mature egg and thus
can be easily preserved. Embryos, which are eggs that have been
fertilized, are approximately the same size as mature eggs, but
are much more likely to survive the freezing/thawing cycles.

This is due to the fact that the eggs’ membranes undergo
dramatic changes during fertilization, making them more likely
to tolerate the stresses associated with freezing. The use of
cyroprotectants and highly controlled freezing/thawing rates
have dramatically improved the survival rates of frozen sperm
and frozen embryos. In many ways, the lessons learned from
freezing sperm and embryos are being applied to freezing
oocytes. However, the unique nature of the female egg has
required additional study and technological developments.

A number of approaches have been taken in order to maximize the
survival rates of frozen oocytes. The greatest success has been
achieved with protocols that use slow freezing/rapid thaw
protocols. Critical to any freezing protocol is the use of
cryoprotectants.

Cryoprotectants act by a variety of means to reduce the amount
of water that crystallizes within the cell and protects the cell
during the freezing process. Common cryoprotectants include an
alcohol (1,2-propranediol), a carbohydrate (sucrose) and a
solvent (DMSO). The concentration and the duration of exposure
to most cryoprotectants (alcohols and solvents) are critical, as
exposure to high concentrations or exposure for prolonged
periods of time can result in damage to the cell. We have found
that increasing the concentration of sucrose (a relatively safe
cryoprotectant that works by pulling water out of the cell)
results in significantly improved survival rates, fertilization
rates and pregnancy rates for frozen oocytes.

We also have found that the removal of the cryoprotectant with
progressive dilution is a critical step in the thawing process.
If oocytes are placed directly in a medium without
cryoprotectant after thawing, they can swell and burst. The use
of nonpermeating molecules (molecules that do not enter in the
thawing cell) such as sucrose, act to oppose the inflow of water
into the cell and thus prevent the membrane from bursting.

Others have recently undertaken investigations using a process
called vitrification; a process that utilizes ultrarapid
freezing techniques. While some pregnancies have been achieved
utilizing this technique, it has not been shown to be more
efficacious than slow freeze/rapid thaw protocols and is more
susceptible to human error.

This process exposes the egg to potentially damaging levels of
cryoprotectant and direct exposure to liquid nitrogen. Exposure
to liquid nitrogen is a critical factor in this age of concern
over infectious agents. The infectious agents, while rare, can
result in life-threatening illnesses. This is a critical concern
as the cryopreserved cells are stored in common tanks and a
single tank may contain thousands of cells.

Regardless of the freezing technique, the oocyte goes through a
number of changes that make it less likely to fertilize using
standard co-incubation techniques (the mixing of eggs and sperm
together).

The understanding that the zona pellucida (an exoskeleton that
covers the outside of the egg) undergoes changes due to the
premature release of the cortical granules (these are normally
released at the time of fertilization and prevent multiple sperm
from fertilizing the egg) is an important factor that has lead
to improved success with frozen eggs.

This has led to changes in how frozen oocytes are fertilized.
With the introduction of intracytoplasmic sperm injection
(ICSI), the results for fertilization, embryo development, and
for implantation rates (attachment of the embryo to the uterus)
are approaching those obtained with fresh embryos.

Conclusions

We are just reaching a time where it is becoming feasible to
preserve unfertilized, mature oocytes. These are harvested after
taking fertility medications to induce the maturation of a
number of oocytes.

Women of this generation want more options and power when it
comes making life decisions and plans. This is an exciting next
step in the long line of developments in the field of women’s
reproductive health - on par with the introduction of the birth
control pill.

Dr. Bradford Kolb is a reproductive endocrinologist and OB/GYN
at Huntington Reproductive Center in Pasadena, CA Phone: (626)
440-9161 or Toll Free (866) HRC-4IVF Website:
http://www.havingbabies.com Christy Jones is the CEO and founder
of Extend Fertility in Boston, MA Phone: (800) 841-7197 Email:
info@extendfertility.com Website: http://www.extendfertility.com
REFERENCES: U.S. Census Bureau. “Distribution of Women by
Average Number of Children Ever Born, by Race, Age, and Marital
Status.” Fertility of American Women Current Population Survey
(June 2000). National Parenting Association. “Groundbreaking
Study Exposes A Crisis Among Successful Women: The Survey Behind
Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s ‘Creating a Life.’” National Parenting
Association Web site.

About the author:
Bradford Kolb, MD, F.A.C.O.G.

Undergraduate -University of California, Irvine Medical School
University of California, Irvine

Residency Obstetrics & Gynecology-Northwestern University

Fellowship Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility-University
of Southern California

Board Certifications-Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Obstetrics and Gynecology
http://www.havingbabies.com/staff_kolb.html

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A general concern of people entering the therapeutic donor insemination program are the physical and health characteristics of the donor. While all donors remain anonymous, physical characteristics and background information are available to recipients. In addition, pertinent health information and a three generation family history is also available upon request. All sperm specimens used have been frozen and quarantined for at least 6 months to allow thorough screening for sexually transmissible diseases. All specimens out of quarantine have been found to be negative for HIV, Hepatitis B and C, syphilis, cytomegalovirus, gonococus, and chlamydia. When indicated by ethnic origin, genetic testing for tay-sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia is performed.

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