Anthropreneur

CNN’s Alina Cho reports of a growing number of “fertility tourists.” The Sperm Bank of New York offers women, whose husbands are infertile, an opportunity to get pregnant with a child that phenotypically matches their husbands. In Europe, artificial insemination is cheaper, hence the market for blond, blue-eyed Danish babies is the fastest growing in the U.S. to the extent that a version of anti-trust regulation has been adopted by some sperm banks who try to cater to the needs of other breeds and races. I could add that, in a reversal of the common logic, certain would-be moms from Germany are keen on conceiving a Native American child. To accomplish this task, they travel to a Native American reservation and befriend a full-blooded Indian. In the morning, the Indian man brags to his less lucky tribesmen that he “counted a coup” on a white woman. In Denmark men count money and are known as “sperm donors,” in Indian Country they count coups and are probably thought of as “absent fathers.”