Canada outlaws paying for sperm, but America doesn't

I guess if you're not going to get paid to do it, why bother going through the tests to become an approved sperm donor when you could just jack off at home?

Women shopping for super sperm

Ever since March 2004, when Canada outlawed payments for donor sperm and eggs on the principle that selling human tissue is unethical, the availability of home-grown donor sperm has dropped. The few men who qualified to donate sperm, after going through a rigorous screening process, lost interest once the financial incentive was removed.

But American sperm banks slickly marketed commercial enterprises still offer donors up to $100 US a pop, and consequently they offer women a vast choice and more detail than many dream of.

This surprised me. I would have thought Canadians would find it more unethical to deny women the chance to get pregnant through donated sperm than to "sell human tissue."

I don't even think of sperm as "human tissue," actually. It's meant to emit from the body – it's not even close to the same category as skin flakes or nail clippings. Ew.