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...Genius Factory,” the first book by David A. Plotz ’92, is probably the best lay-audience book about sperm ever written. It’s hardly a generic discussion of the male gamete, though, because—well, not all sperm make...
...Plotz, who is also a Crimson editor, was reminded of this kooky experiment soon after its founder’s death led to its closing. He remembered that the original articles had interested him as a child. He began to investigate the institution in a series of articles for the online magazine Slate, where he is deputy editor...
Almost as soon as he began, people began contacting him about their experiences; Plotz became a part of their search for families. Finally, a benevolent sperm donor, code-named Donor White by the Sperm Bank, contacted Plotz about an article he had written. With Plotz’s help, White, assisted by a birthmother whom Plotz nicknamed Beth, began a grandfatherly relationship with one of the children born from his sperm...
...Plotz dug in deeper and found more families, eventually talking to 30 of the 215 kids born with sperm from the Sperm Bank. His narrative blends the stories of these children with the history of the bank itself, eugenics, and sperm banking in general, as well as an analysis of all the people involved...
...Crimson talked to Plotz about whether any of these kids were geniuses and why; whether or not Harvard students should donate sperm; his conclusions about Graham, the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank founder; and whether his subjects liked his book...