Friday, November 30, 2007

Dating while inseminating

I almost laughed out loud at my desk this morning when I read the following sentence: "Welcome to the newest dating frontier -- dating while inseminating." Yes, someone actually wrote that.

Turns out, as single women age, more of them now are turning to an artificial route to pregnancy to satisfy that ticking biological clock, according to this article on msn.com. Women who continue to date while doing so face the awkward moment of telling the man they're seeing that they're trying to get knocked up with a stranger -- a medically approved stranger, of course. One such woman noted the irony of using a condom with her date, only to go to the doctor's office to be inseminated with sperm the next day.

Men react to this news in a variety of ways from being cool with it to running away in fear. From the woman's point of view, she doesn't want to run out of time to bear children, and she wants to be able to enjoy them while she's still young. From the man's point of view, this sort of takes away his chances of being a biological father for a child.

Women: Have any of you considered artificial insemination or already been artificially inseminated? Would you/did you date while you were having it done? How did you approach the subject with your dates? What were their responses?

Men: How would you react if a woman told you she was trying to artificially inseminate? Would that be a deal breaker? Why or why not?

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