You can buy anything online these days. How about sperm? Well... apparently you can buy that too. Check out ManNotIncluded.com, which claims to be a service for providing a means of conception to Lesbian couples. There's a potential source of amusement and comedy in the idea that conception could be traded as a commodity. I'm sure we could sit giggling like schoolboys at the practicalities of organising a sperm donation online. However, perhaps there's are some more weighty questions at stake here.

Questions like the right to procreate. Is it a right? If so, shouldn't the traditional medical world provide for the needs that have caused the above site to be established? If it is not a right, then who should be deciding what constitutes entitlement to have children?

Another question would be whether anyone is comfortable with the use of the internet as a means to facilitating such a fundamentally natural thing as having children. There's something odd about having to escape to the free-and-easy world of the 'net to be able to gain access to things that nature has been providing in quantity forever.