Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man's Most Precious Fluid2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title |
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... industry. At the time, sperm banks were competitive and largely unregulated enterprises that were using new technologies to create a pliable, fertile, and desirable product. Then living in San Francisco, I quickly grew familiar with a ...
... industry and even grew to know members of the international semen banking community.4 Now I had the access to information I had previously only dreamed about, but I was in an ethical dilemma similar to what many medical sociologists ...
... industry. Through these stories, as with any concept, sperm becomes institutionalized and taken for granted and, thus, self-sustaining. My work expands on previous scholarship by analyzing how sperm is a “liminal substance” that ...
... industrial complex, biological or scientific enterprises, and the criminal justice system, often pit men against one another in their pursuit of this dominance. Men there are engaged in practices of representing other men as flawed ...
... those norms, values, and taboos from childhood. I examine the sex entertainment industry. In the context of the post-AIDS era, the handling, both symbolic and practical, of potentially contaminated semen 16 SPERM COUNTS.
Contents
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The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution | 71 |
Sperm Banks and the Crisis of Fatherhood | 92 |
Semen as Evidence | 121 |
The Future of Sperm | 147 |