Danish sperm donors and (imagined) relationships

What is it about?

New reproductive technologies have the potential to create new understandings of who and how people are related. When donated sperm is used in the conception of a child, a network of potential relationships is produced: between donors, donor offspring, recipient parents, and the parents, partners, and children of donors. I interviewed Danish donors about how they thought about, or 'imagined', these potential relationships.

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Why is it important?

I found that the imagined relationships could produce mixed feelings of pride and curiosity as well as a fear of loss of control, which grew out of the secretive nature of sperm donation.