Hey, now, wait a second...this is discrimination....or something.

Hmm...although it does rather explain my dating life.

Sperm bank turns down redheads

The world's largest sperm bank has started turning down redheaded donors because there is too little demand for their sperm.

Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to become much more picky about its donors.


"There are too many redheads in relation to demand," he told told Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet. "I do not think you chose a redhead, unless the partner - for example, the sterile male - has red hair, or because the lone woman has a preference for redheads. And that's perhaps not so many, especially in the latter case."

Mr Schou said the only reliable demand for sperm from redheaded donors from Ireland, where he said it sold “like hot cakes”.

Cryos’s stores have now reached their peak capacity of 70 litres of semen, and Mr Schou has a waiting list of 600 donors.

He said sperm from donors with brown hair and brown eyes was particularly in demand, because of the bank’s large customer base in Spain, Italy and Greece.

James Taranto observes:

Life Imitates 'South Park'--II


■"In a class presentation, Cartman delivers something that could be considered a hate speech, arguing that 'Gingers'--people with red hair, freckles, and pale skin--are disgusting, inhuman, unable to survive in sunlight, and have no souls; all because of a condition called 'Gingervitis.' When Kyle points out that he too has red hair, Cartman says that there is a second class of redheads, the 'daywalkers,' who have red hair but not pale skin and freckles, and concludes that 'If you think that the Ginger problem is not a serious one, think again!' while he clicks through a clip, and stops on a picture of Carrot Top."--Wikipedia summary for "Ginger Kids," aired Nov. 9, 2005