Joe Donor believes he is a hero to women across the world. Photo / 60 Minutes
Joe Donor believes he is a hero to women across the world. Photo / 60 Minutes
A US sperm donor, known only as 'Joe Donor' spends his time travelling the world and impregnating as many women as possible.
He has told the 60 Minutes program it is his life's work, but critics say he is dangerous and has no place meeting with vulnerable women.
Joe Donor claims to have already fathered more than 100 children, to women all over the world, and his current destination is Australia.
While here, Joe plans to impregnate 15 different women with his sperm and continue his widespread lineage, news.com.au reported.
Joe told reporter Liz Hayes he had impregnated women aged from 20 to 40, but says he is under no illusions that these encounters will ever lead to love.
Instead of the natural insemination service Joe offers, Sharney requested a delivery of Joe's semen, which he did less than six hours after arriving in Australia.
Sharney said the encounter with Joe was uncomfortable.
"It was very awkward, but I tried to make it so that it was as quick as possible, so that then my wife and I could share in the moment … of making a baby," she said.
"I wanted to make that private and create that special moment between us."
Joe claims the maximum number of 'deliveries' he has made in a day was five, also claiming he once had two successes in the same day.
But he says his clients don't need to know his history or personal details as they were after a pregnancy, "not an autobiography".
Joe Donor said he has delivered his semen to women in Queensland, southern Victoria, Adelaide and Sydney.
He claimed to have had sexual intercourse with half of the women he visited on his trip around Australia.
But he was doubtful that he may have unknowingly contracted a sexually transmitted disease on his travels.
"The theoretical risk that someone could have a disease which has symptoms which no one could see or feel … it all sounds very theoretical to me," Joe said.
During the interview, Hayes appeared to become irritated by Joe's cavalier attitude towards his work, suggesting he was risking women's lives deliberately.
"No I'm not, I'm helping women achieve their dreams. No one has become sick," Joe said.
According to Joe, the real risk is that "a woman will die a spinster without a child".
The reporter bit back, stating: "The real risk is that you're totally deluded."
At several times throughout the interview, the conversation became heated, as Hayes made repeated remarks that Joe Donor could be infected with an STD.
"You could be infected and not know it," Joe said.
But Hayes was quick to retaliate, saying "I'm talking about you Joe, I'm not donating, you are."
The self-proclaimed sperm donor took Hayes to his hotel room, where he laid out his tools he has brought with him to Australia, including a syringe to "aspirate the sperm" as well as a cup or zip lock bag to collect the semen.
Joe's job is literally 'baby-making', a skill he advertises on Facebook to women all over the world.
"Like any artist … they take pride in their work and they want to produce more work," Joe said.
"If you compose music you want to produce more songs, I think it's very normal to want to do your job well and to want to do it often."
But he claimed the best way for him to do his 'job' was via natural insemination, or sexual intercourse, which he says accounts for almost half of his transactions.
During a follow up interview with Joe, Hayes claimed the American donor was on a "narcissistic power trip".
Chloe Allworthy is terrified to date men her age for fear they could be her brother. Photo / Supplied
CHLOE ALLWORTHY
Chloe Allworthy was conceived from a sperm donor and told 60 Minutes she was extremely uncomfortable with Joe Donor's practice.
She has spent many years uneasy at the thought that the next man she has sex with could turn out to be her biological sibling.
As one of 16 sperm donor siblings, the 29-year-old has made contact with her biological father and eight of her siblings, but said she is incredibly uncomfortable that she doesn't know who the others are.
"I don't even really want to date people within my age range, because I'm so afraid that they're gonna be my brothers," she said.
Chloe said she was scared that, at some point, she could develop a condition known as "Genetic Sexual Attraction".
This occurs when two people are attracted to each other, but remain unaware that they are actually biologically linked.
"If you're meeting someone like that for the first time and you don't know that they're a sibling, you could possibly think, "Wow. There's that connection there," but not realise the connection is a sibling bond," Chloe said.
But according to Joe, GSA between his biological children wasn't his problem.
"This is the choice that their mother made," he said.
"Women make their own reproductive choices. Haven't you fought for that? You now have those rights,
"I'm just the tool by which this happens."
His comments upset Chloe, who described him as a narcissist.
"I really would urge Joe … to please reconsider, because people like myself and the donor-conceived community will be outraged by this," she said.
"It's just really unfortunate that he hasn't thought through what impact that will have on us, on the donor-conceived people born from this."
Melbourne IVF Clinic medical director Lyndon Hale said while the practice of backdoor sperm donations was fraught with risk, he understood why some women would approach Joe Donor for his services.
"The desire to have a baby is intense for some people, and this is probably one area where you could make really good decisions and really dumb decisions," Dr Hale said.
Joe Donor believes he is a hero to women across the world. Photo / 60 Minutes
