Bank documentary sperm

Sign in. Watch our trailer of trailers. A Californian millionaire established a sperm bank in with the aim of creating a master race of exceptional individuals, but did the plan work? When I saw the advertisement on TV for this documentary I thought that it sounded interesting. I hadn't heard anything about a so-called genius sperm bank or someone named Robert Graham.

Log in Advanced Search. As an embryologist working in a fertility clinic, I frequently use donor sperm to help individuals and couples become parents. In my little fertility clinic bubble, sperm donation is a highly regulated process. Potential donors undergo rigorous physical and genetic screening and they receive counselling to determine whether they are prepared on an emotional level to become a sperm donor. The welfare of the children that could be born from treatment using donated sperm is carefully considered. Donor-conceived children must be able to access identifying information about their donor should they wish to do so after they turn This is not so out of the context of a fertility clinic.

L ouis used to cycle to the sperm bank, his deposit in a bag. He needed to make it in good time to preserve the contents of each specimen jar, which he placed in a warmed cabinet when he arrived. In the evenings, when men arrived after work, there would sometimes be social events at the sperm bank, with tea and cake.

Officially named the Repository for Germinal Choice, its aim was to breed highly intelligent people in order to save the world from genetic decline. Graham believed he could achieve this by getting clever men to donate sperm. To be safe from prying eyes, Graham used an underground bunker in the backyard of his ranch in San Diego, California. He then set about sourcing the cleverest sperm and managed to convince three Nobel Prize winners to donate. One of them was William Shockley, a notorious racist.