Sperm has become one of the hottest commodities being sold in Ghana and many parts of the world.
The target market for this new booming venture are couples suffering from male infertility, l*sbian couples, and single women who pay huge amounts of money to access it.
According to latest reports, sperm has become one of the hottest commodities being sold in Ghana. The target market for this new booming venture are couples suffering from male infertility, lesbian couples, and single women who pay huge amounts of money to access it.
“Selling of sperm is gradually becoming the new business frontier booming in Ghana because it has many uses in today’s society: making babies, sperm banks, and putting volume in limp hair in order to make it long,” a medical student at the University of Ghana Medical School, who sold sperm five times to a Fertility Centre in Accra for GH¢10, 000 ($5,280), told Economic Tribune (ET).
The
medical student, who gave his name only as Mensah, said even though
selling of sperm was a risky business, it was also rewarding as well.
“I
use the proceeds from this business to pay my fees and also support my
close pals. Who knows how long I will continue? But whatever happens, I
know I can look back on many happy families that I have helped to
create,” he stated.
Mrs Naomi Suame, a shop owner at East Legon
and many parts of Accra, has been married for 15 years and has two
children, none of whom biologically belongs to her husband.
“I
discovered my husband was infertile when we got married after two years.
But I wanted to experience motherhood. I decided to have artificial insemination.
I have never cheated on him. I just got sperm from a willing seller and
got two healthy babies. Is that not wonderful?” she asked. In the case
of Naomi, she got a young man from the University of Cape Coast, paid
him GH¢12,000 ($6,322) and took his sperm, which she used twice to get
the babies.
“Sperm is one of the scared commodities for many of
us. There is a high demand for it and many young men are going into this
venture selling their sperm to help others, who needs it for one reason
or the other,” Naomi explained.
Investigations conducted by ET
revealed that due to the huge capital outlay of the process, women have
now devised a way of beating the system by getting donors (sperm
sellers) whom they take to the Fertility Centres for harvesting at a
cheaper cost and then having the sperm induced in their uterus’s.
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