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Source:Queensland University of Technology | Summary:With commercial sperm banking giving women more opportunities to become mothers, a new study has found the age and education of sperm donors are the most important characteristics considered.
"What women want in their sperm donor: A study of more than 1000 women's sperm donor selections by Stephen Whyte and Professor Benno Torgler from QUT's Queensland Behavioural Economics Group, has just been published by the international journal Economics and Human Biology.
Conducted in conjunction with the Queensland Fertility Group, the study examined how 1546 Australian women have made decisions about sperm donors they have chosen across the last ten years (2006-2015).
"In most developed countries women (and men) with fertility problems, single women and lesbians are all now able to freely access sperm from sperm banks and reproductive health facilities for insemination. Women are theoretically no longer bound by the constraints of proximity, social class, culture, or race when choosing a male to mate with," Mr Whyte said.
"Many women have more freedom than ever before when it comes to choosing who fathers their offspring and what we have found is that younger and more highly educated sperm donors are snapped up much faster..."
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