What has the world come to? WHAT?
- ‘Order a Daddy’: Sperm Delivery App Lets Users Pick Ideal Donor (Future of Sex)
Others, though, feel the development of the app demeans the role of the father in procreation. “”How much further can we go in the trivialisation of parenthood?” the Director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics, Josephine Quintavalle told The Times. “This is reproduction via the mobile phone. It’s digital dads… this is the ultimate denigration of fatherhood.”
In response, London Sperm Bank released a statement: “Ordering sperm from an online catalogue or an app does not trivialise treatment, and every step meets the requirements of the HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority).”
While the app is free (on iOS and Android), and only for UK residents, those interested in receiving a donation have to pay a £950 fee.Then the desired sperm is shipped to a fertility clinic of clients’ choosing.
While there are those who see “Order a Daddy” as a negative development, for people struggling to conceive it could very well be a big step forward.
This apparently. This is what the world has come to.
It’s not so bad.
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Salvador Dalí’s Rare Erotic Cookbook Is Getting Reprinted (The Creators Project)
Salvador Dalí wore many hats in his life: luminary Surrealist, collaborator with cinema legends Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, self-proclaimed clown, and experimental filmmaker—but from the age of six he longed to wear a chef’s toque blanche. In 1973 that dream culminated in a sensual fusion of cookbook and art object, Les diners de Gala, which Taschen just announced it is reprinting for the first time in decades.
Peppered between Dalí’s often outlandish recipes are surreal photos and illustrations of the food paired with his melting clocks, barren deserts, and fantastical animals. Dishes that lose all resemblance to reality, taking on human body parts or backed by dreamlike landscapes, elevate the more conventional fair. One picture of pork shoulder surrounded by a Bosch-like garden of delights acts as a cerebral spice for the nearby “Roast Pork with Shellfish.” It infuses it with mystique, while also making it seem approachable in comparison.
I didn’t know I needed an Erotic cookbook, but I do. I really do.
As both artistic collaborators and friends, Robin Bougie and Maxine Frank have a mildly cartoonish origin story. Though Maxine knew of Bougie’s exploitation film-inspired porn comics long before she turned 18, they thankfully connected when she was legally allowed to buy them, at a screening of a Turkish Spider-Man reimagining in which Peter Parker is an evil mobster. They’ve been drawing porn together ever since.
“We first started meeting at coffee shops,” Bougie told VICE. “I’d draw part of a panel, hand it over to her, and she would draw the other half. Or I would pencil it and she would ink it, or the other way around.” Frank and Bougie both remember the awkward lean-overs, strange glances, and people pretending not to eavesdrop. “We were almost always doing porn.”
Over the next decade, the two have shared pages on several comic projects—the latest being a forthcoming 40-page woman-led adventure called Cyborg Sex Surrogate. “She was created by a weird nerdy guy to be his ultimate girlfriend,” Frank says of the lead character. “She’s finding her own identity, but with a lot of sex.”
VICE caught up with the pair in Vancouver to chat about women-driven narrative, oversharing fans, and what bodies actually look like.
I know Robin. He’s a super cool dude, the best of geeky and porny. You should all check him out! Maxine too, although, I don’t know her personally.
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