There are strange things every year, and this year is especially numerous.
Recently, a documentary launched by Netflix has been fried on the Internet again.
Because the protagonist of the documentary may be the man who has the most offspring in this world so far.
He has more than 1,000 children worldwide, and the number is still growing, and some insiders speculate that the real number may be 3,000!
How did he do it? Why are so many women willing to give birth to his offspring?
Netflix's documentary "The Father of a Thousand Sons" tells this outrageous real event, and today I will talk about this bizarre story that deserves to be warned.
Father of a Thousand Sons: The Strange Case of Sperm Donation
导演: Josh Allott
Genre: Documentary / Crime
Country/Region of Production: United Kingdom
Language: Netherlands / English
Premiere: 2024-07-03 (United Kingdom)
Episodes: 3
Episode duration: 40 minutes
Suppose you are a single Netherlands woman who wants to have children, and in reality you have not met the desired person, you have to hope for a sperm bank.
In the Netherlands, it takes 16 years to get the contact information of a sperm donor if you go through the formal process, but some private sperm donation websites can directly contact the donor.
On a website called "Verlangen naar een Kind", there are many people who are willing to donate sperm privately, and they will personally visit the homes of families who are seeking children and complete the process in private places such as bathrooms.
After browsing through many strange sperm donor profiles, your eyes light up and you see a handsome man with a sunny smile: Jonathan · Meyer.
He has curly blond hair and deep blue eyes, and loves to travel and music.
You think it's him, and you will definitely be able to give birth to a cute baby with his genes.
You made an appointment to meet, and in reality he is as handsome and charming as in the photos.
And polite, without any inappropriate behavior, left a tube of "gifts" in the bathroom and left.
Ten months later, you gave birth to a lovely baby and everything was perfect.
However, just as you are immersed in the joy of becoming a mother, you suddenly find that there is an acquaintance around you who has given birth through a sperm bank, and the sperm donor is also Jonathan · Meyer.
And with five or six of these babies in your circle alone, you start to feel uneasy.
As you continue to investigate, you will discover a terrible fact: your baby has hundreds of half-siblings.
Natalie is one of the biological mothers who experienced the above events, and she almost broke down when she knew the truth.
Jonathan lied to her, saying that he had only helped four or five families.
What's even more terrifying is that Jonathan · Meyer not only donates sperm privately, he also donates sperm at regular sperm banks.
Jonathan donated sperm at more than a dozen clinics in the Netherlands, he had several pseudonyms, and 102 children were born!
Formal sperm banks will first sign a written contract, requiring the sperm donor not to donate sperm to other clinics or women, and the sperm donor can only donate to one clinic.
Because Netherlands has a law that prohibits sperm donors from having more than 25 children in Netherlands, this is done to reduce the risk of incest.
Fears about incest are not superfluous.
Studies have shown that blood relatives are prone to sexual attraction, which is known as "hereditary sexual attraction".
It is especially easy to happen between siblings who have not lived together since childhood, two people who are related by blood have a very high degree of genetic similarity, and each other's personalities, personalities and interests will make them attractive and fall in love.
The problem quickly spread from Netherlands to the world.
Jonathan is often on social media, sharing videos of his travels around the world.
Does he also donate sperm in those countries? So how many children does he really have? Hundreds or thousands?
Kate and Laura, who live in Australia, have two lovely sons.
It was on the sperm bank Cryos that they chose a Netherlands sperm donor named Lourdes.
Later, they learned that Lourdes was Jonathan.
Jonathan donates sperm not only in the Netherlands, but also in sperm banks around the world.
According to the website of Cryos sperm bank, Jonathan went back to Copenhagen for four days a month for four years, so he donated sperm about 200 times.
15 tubes of sperm can be collected in a single ejaculation, and if each tube can give birth to a baby, then there may be 3,000 children!
What's worse is that although there is a national limit on the number of offspring of sperm donors, there is no international limit.
In other words, popular sperm donors can continue to sell in other countries after their sales reach the upper limit in one country.
There are so many countries in the world, and it is extremely scary to think about it.
Jonathan's charming smile, neat teeth, long curly blond hair, and deep blue eyes are all traits that grow on the white man's aesthetic.
So Jonathan's genes are very popular in sperm banks.
Ironically, even livestock breeding regulations are more stringent than human sperm donation.
Jonathan's frenzied sowing is not illegal.
The only thing the birth mothers can do is to build a database for their children, and when they reach adulthood, they can compare the database to prevent incest.
The birth mothers uploaded photos of their children in the group they formed.
Each child has similar facial features and looks like a different version of the same child.
They also held a parent-child day, where the children got along well the first time they met, which is the power of blood ties, and the similarities in their personalities made it easy for them to have a crush on each other.
Some children come home and say that they have fallen in love with one of them, which is what parents fear the most.
In the face of the condemnation, Jonathan claimed that he did it out of great love and wanted to help families who wanted children.
When a friend of his was diagnosed with infertility in college, Jonathan began donating sperm out of sympathy.
Looking back at Jonathan's life, he seems to have been searching for self and meaning in existence.
He has repeatedly mentioned the transience of all things and the emptiness of life in his channel.
He has tried many jobs and identities.
He worked as a band guitarist, a teacher, and later a cryptocurrency trader.
Jonathan is lost in multiple identities, but he soon finds his purpose in life, which is also the most primitive human instinct: reproduction.
Jonathan's actions are not as full of love as he says.
His attitude towards the conception of life is casual, even like a game.
What is outrageous is that Jonathan also has a "sperm donor partner", this person is named Li Ang, a bald and strong man with a height of 190.
私人捐精网站"Longing for a Child"(渴望生子)就是他建立的。
Leon and Jonathan have a lot of different "vests" on the "Desire to Have Children" website, and they are both behind them.
Leon's appearance is not as pleasing as Jonathan's, but sometimes even if Jonathan is chosen, it is likely that Leon's sperm will be obtained.
They will even mix the sperm of the two and give it to the woman who wants to get pregnant.
"Play sperm Russia roulette and see who wins."
After the incident was kicked out, Jonathan still had no intention of stopping, he was still donating sperm to various institutions, and using that blonde curly hair to advertise his genes.
The birth mothers found that Jonathan was not the only one in the world to do so, and there were some sperm donors like him who had a large number of sperm donors, and they even had their own clubs.
For example, some clinics in Kenya have a high demand for European sperm, and they will invite these sperm donors to come over, provide them with free room and board, and then "milk the cow" to collect sperm in large quantities, and a few sperm donors can fill the inventory.
And the sperm of these people will give birth to a large number of half-offspring in Kenya.
Sperm donors see Kenya as a paradise, where they can travel for free to eat and drink and give birth to offspring.
These people go to different countries to sow seeds with the ambition to spread the world to future generations.
And the irresponsible clinic hit it off with the sperm donor.
There are even sperm donors who make racist remarks: "To bleach African ......", "Soon more countries will be colonized by my glorious and powerful white seed." ”
Eventually, the birth mothers took Jonathan to court.
This is an unprecedented case that falls under the three-law zone.
The lawyer racked his brains to find a legal basis for charging Jonathan with endangering public health because his actions led to the possibility of inbreeding.
In April 2023, Jonathan was finally banned from donating sperm worldwide, and a fine of 100,000 euros was imposed for violating it.
and destroy the semen he had supplied to his newborn mother.
After the documentary aired, Jonathan posted a video on his channel arguing that Netflix was filming this to make money, and that children would be hurt when they saw their biological father being slandered.
can only be described as shameless.
Sperm banking is a reliable choice for many couples who are unable to have children and who are single to have children.
It is not unusual for many people to give birth to offspring through sperm banks.
A few years ago, screenshots of foreign sperm banks on domestic social networks went viral.
On these sites, it is possible to choose the sperm donor's height, education, hobbies, and even hair and eye color, and some can also see photos of their childhood.
Getting a cute mixed-race baby so easily and intuitively is the envy of many single women.
However, people overlook the hidden risk behind sperm banks: sperm donations.
Not only do they donate to a sperm bank, they will even donate sperm banks all over the world, but they will also fake their identities to donate sperm repeatedly.
Just for one purpose - to give birth to their offspring in large numbers.
These half-children are likely to grow up to meet and fall in love, and then unknowingly engage in incest, with irreparable results.
The documentary "Father of a Thousand Sons" dug up the dark side behind the sperm bank and sounded the alarm for many people.
The most scary thing is that Jonathan is not the only one in the world who has done so.