![]() ![]() On occasion, they can be a teeny bit cutesy, but they are interesting, really interesting.Everyone has an inner monologue, a steady stream of thoughts, ideas, images, aspirations and recollections. ![]() The shows are long, detailed, with plenty of light and shade. These might sound like vague topics, but in Spiegel and Miller’s hands, they aren’t. So, the first programme was about violent and negative thoughts the second, about fear and lack of fear. Presented by two women, Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller, who hail from This American Life and Radiolab respectively, Invisibilia is about the stuff in our heads that we don’t consider much, but that affects how we approach our lives. To wash that stuff right out of your hair (soorrreeee), may I recommend a new podcast? Invisibilia (yes, it’s another US public radio offering) has been going for three weeks and is already hanging around No 1 in the iTunes podcast. Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel, presenters of the NPR podcast Invisibilia. And it’s humanity that should be grateful, as opposed to the scores of women who just want a baby and are forced, by a ludicrous legal system, to rely on these creepy odd-bods. It’s the fleets of fabulously gened mini-mes that makes these donors feel like proper men. Mr Top Three confessed to having a “fascination with pregnancy and reproduction” (bleugh) Annie’s donor reckoned himself as intelligent, from a good family, so his sperm needed to be spread around. Upton talked about genes (he has “a lot” of them “in there”, apparently) and beating an unfair system. Especially as for illegal donors, busy-busy-busy with their spreadsheets and websites and diary schedules, it wasn’t the sex (solo or otherwise) that was turning them on. Despite these quibbles, this was a fascinating programme. Most of the men who rush around, donating like billy-o, are into “natural insemination”. Also – and I did listen back for this – the main question is, are these particular donors giving sperm or sex? With the two main interviewees, this wasn’t made absolutely clear, even though it was in other parts of the programme. As a presenter, Jenkins is sensitive, but his script is straightforward, and he doesn’t have the wit or lightness of touch of, say, Jon Ronson or Louis Theroux. Which is why the presentation style needs to be suffused with charm. Meanwhile, any woman who is looking for sperm has to find £1,500 just to get the stuff anywhere near her… For all this trouble, the donor will receive the grand total of £35. Then, if his donation results in a child, that child has the right to track down its father at 18. The legal donor has to crank out his offering twice a week for several months, with no sexual activity (including masturbation) for three days before… which, of course, means pretty much no sex at all, other than at the clinic. ![]() Why were these boffers so busy? Well, the problem with legal sperm donation in the UK is that it is so strictly monitored. Then there was another, more long-term, donor in his 60s, who, with 27 children, and nine maybe-pregnancies, reckoned he was in the top three. Though he only began last March, he’s currently numero uno in our illegal sperm donation league. Upton, whose semen is so demon he claims it can override the pill, is the UK’s daddy of daddies. The first was Upton North, with 17 children already and 22 possible pregnancies. All together now: eeeuuuuuuHe also interviewed two enthusiastic, non-legal, sperm donors. ![]()
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