{"id":980001,"date":"2026-05-23T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980001\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:59:19","slug":"on-the-attack-the-sperm-donors-preying-on-londons-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980001\/","title":{"rendered":"On the attack: The sperm donors preying on London&#8217;s women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can also be lucrative. The groups maintain that the only costs involved are covering donors\u2019 travel (men who donate through regulated clinics receive \u00a345 each time). Yet some mass donors speak openly about their demands for cash, including one who reportedly has 800 children, charging \u00a350 apiece \u2014 some \u00a340,000. Reports swirl that repeat offenders donate multiple times in a day and charge travel costs to each recipient, despite them being in the same vicinity; others are said to mix their samples with egg or milk in order to increase the volume they can sell off. Unscrupulous, certainly, and potentially fatal for those with severe allergies. The donor is adamant that \u201cif groups are run by a donor as a private harem, yes, they should be banned.\u201d How many of them fall into that category? \u201cAt the moment, 100 per cent. There\u2019s a lot of fake profiles and they\u2019re vouching for themselves, which is terrible\u2026 It\u2019s a numbers game,\u201d he adds. \u201cNot everyone falls for it, but enough do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It can also be lucrative. The groups maintain that the only costs involved are covering donors\u2019 travel (men&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,592,4884,3396,257,85733,16,15],"class_list":["post-980001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-fertility","tag-great-britain","tag-ivf","tag-london","tag-special-report","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116624252386607481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}