Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors: Surrogacy

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SCANDAL SURROGACY
Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors
Thanapat Kitjakosol
The Nation


These online ads are looking for healthy women who will agree to give their eggs away in return for a lump sum of between Bt20,000 and Bt80,000. These ads describe the offer as a form of help to couples with infertility problems.

BANGKOK: -- People with high profiles or prized qualifications top the list of the most sought after sperm and egg donors in Thailand's mostly unauthorised but increasingly popular surrogacy industry.

Male medical students are wanted for their academic intelligence and female models for their good looks.

A former Miss Thailand reportedly received Bt1 million for her eggs while medical students are paid up to Bt50,000 for their sperm.

Event girls, known as "Pretties", or models generally receive between Bt20,000 and Bt50,000, said an event girl who was an eggs donor and now works as an agent in the industry.

She said that TV actresses received between Bt80,000 and Bt100,000 for their eggs. Surrogacy clients paid a large sum of money on top of that to the agent or surrogacy clinic.

She estimated that clients usually paid between Bt180,000 and Bt250,000 for a surrogacy involving an event girls or university student but the donor only received between Bt20,000 and Bt50,000.

The source said the sale of sperm and eggs flourished on social media, with donors and people seeking donors using Line chat rooms and Facebook pages to connect. There were around 600 women, mostly event girls and students, who were involved in the same Line and Facebook donor communities as her.

She said at one stage, surrogacy operations were hired by a group of Russian women, who were reportedly models and were known as "Angels' Gang". The women wanted to have children with Thai men and the services used Northeast women to facilitate it.

A large number of surrogacy services catered for male gay couples, who sought to have twins - a child each the result of either man's sperm.

A Reuters report said that surrogacy operations in Thailand were especially popular with male clients from China and Hong Kong, because they could choose the child’s sex. They mostly wanted boys because of their patriarchal cultures while the lower service fee for boys was also a factor in some cases, the report said.

The Event Girl source said seven children must have borne from her eggs, fathered by four China nationals and Vietnamese, Hong Kong and Japanese men.

She said she stopped selling her eggs a few years ago at age 25, as the practice prematurely made a woman infertile, and became an agent seeking women interested in selling their eggs.

A woman produces around 300 eggs in her life, or one egg each monthly menstruation cycle.

She said one surrogacy operation used hormone stimulation so she produced around 60 eggs.

The Line and Facebook communities involved in the practice continually changed their names to prevent detection.

She said a group of clinics and agents who dominated the industry had made it difficult for her role in the industry to grow after they reacted to her increasing competition.

Thailand has no laws regulating surrogacy, but the controversy sparked by the "Baby Gammy" case has resulted in the junta giving preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a crime.

Department of Social Development and Welfare deputy director-general Saowanee Khompat said the junta-proposed bill stipulated that surrogacy involving foreign men must end with them marrying the Thai surrogate mothers, while Thai or foreign gay men and women are banned from conducting surrogacy.

The bill also bars the sales and quest for eggs or sperms and prohibit advertising. The womb-for-hire practice will also be illegal.

Boonruang Triruangworawat, director-general of the Department of Health Service Support, said that even after conditional surrogacy was authorised under the new legislation, selecting a child's sex would remain illegal.

Boonruang said this restriction aimed to prevent female foetuses being terminated - in accordance with the Criminal Code against abortion.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Big-money-offered-to-intelligent-and-beautiful-cel-30241690.html


-- The Nation 2014-08-25

[EricBerg]

"A large number of surrogacy services catered for male gay couples, who sought to have twins - a child each the result of either man's sperm."

"She said she stopped selling her eggs a few years ago at age 25, as the practice prematurely made a woman infertile,"...

"She said one surrogacy operation used hormone stimulation so she produced around 60 eggs."

Where is the world going to?

[chooka]

Risk 10 years imprisonment and a criminal conviction for B20K

[Suriya4]

Condom should also be ban, said catholics.

[Robby nz]

Rules out the posters on here then.

[ChrisY1]

This is starting to look bigger than Ben Hur!..........

There's gotta be some big names amongst all this....with the industry flourishing as it seems to have......!

[rijb]

Sounds like there might be a market for a cloning app.

[NickyBurma]

Cum Again

[chainarong]

Well Dare I say it, the young lady that started all this Surrogacy scandal certainly had all those attributes, as advertised.

[NongKhaiKid]

What does before / after makeup have to do with it ?

[Showbags]

I bet they are selling any old drunks pattaya sperm as the good stuff.....like you could rely on thais to be so legit with it.....copy sperm.

[GuyL]

Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors? Seems that I have to found another way to get rich, then!

Edited August 25, 2014 by GuyL

[Payboy]

Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors

Something wrong here. How come I need to offer big money with my sperm donations?

[NongKhaiKid]

I bet they are selling any old drunks pattaya sperm as the good stuff.....like you could rely on thais to be so legit with it.....copy sperm.

I do my best you know, at my age it takes time to raise a gallop.

[jamhar]

you can find counterfeit HONEY in Thailand.

and You're going to shell out 1M B for a "former miss Thailand"s egg?

In fact i think parts of this story maybe counterfeit.

[wirat69]

What does before / after makeup have to do with it ?

Possibly to enable a check on skin condition... a bit same same at the government swimming pools where it is speedos only for men....so they can check whether there are scabs etc on the legs... amazing, but true official requirement and reasoning... health safety to avoid water borne infection!

[NongKhaiKid]

What does before / after makeup have to do with it ?

Possibly to enable a check on skin condition... a bit same same at the government swimming pools where it is speedos only for men....so they can check whether there are scabs etc on the legs... amazing, but true official requirement and reasoning... health safety to avoid water borne infection!

Thanks, never thought of that.

I suppose applicants will get caught out if they send in photos of someone else as they do on computer dating sites.

[Spoonman]

Condom should also be ban, said catholics.

to be fair it is hard to get an alter boy pregnant.

[tonytigerbkk]

What terrible reporting, throwing around words such as intelligent and beautiful and not one mention of TVF's resident Greek God.

[SOTIRIOS]

...do you need a work permit to donate....???

[Songhua]

...do you need a work permit to donate....???

No Just an extension.

[keestha]

Russian women, who were reportedly models and were known as "Angels' Gang". The women wanted to have children with Thai men

Why Thai men? With due respect, they are on an average not physically the most impressive Asian men. If I would be a Russian woman wishing to have a child with an Asian man, I would try to go for a Tamil. They are tall, powerfully built people.

[AGareth2]

another scam?

[klauskunkel]

Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors

How can they guarantee the provenance? Maybe they offered Mok, the garbage hunter, 100 baht to fill up a test tube and suddenly the 49,900 baht goes into the talent scout's pocket...after all, how can you tell? And if you could tell some years later, what could you do about it?

[jobsworth]

"Male medical students are wanted for their academic intelligence and female models for their good looks."

the assumption is that the baby will have will have the intelligence of the medical student

and the good looks of a female model.

but what if the baby has the intelligence of the female model

and the good looks of the medical student?

[willyumiii]

WHAT?

These guys are getting paid big baht to deposit their sperm while I am paying the girls to let me deposit it???

That confirms what my ex wife claimed I was!.

I am really ugly and very stupid!

[GuyL]

Big money offered to 'intelligent' and 'beautiful' cell and sperm donors

Something wrong here. How come I need to offer big money with my sperm donations?

Nowadays, I don't need to give big money in order to regularly make my own sperm donations. You find it hard to swallow? My wife too!

[Spoonman]

"Male medical students are wanted for their academic intelligence and female models for their good looks."

the assumption is that the baby will have will have the intelligence of the medical student

and the good looks of a female model.

but what if the baby has the intelligence of the female model

and the good looks of the medical student?

Reminds me of that Chinese bloke who's very pretty wife gave him some extremely ugly children... turns out she was born pig ugly herself but had had a few operations to improve her appearance.

[NongKhaiKid]

What does before / after makeup have to do with it ?

On second thoughts is it to do with the Thai obsession with beauty ?

[LuckyLew]

Wow I missed this opportunity, I would have been so rich. So many girls here call me "hansum man"