CHENNAI: An Indian couple, desirous of having a brilliant child, has placed an online advertisement seeking a sperm donor preferably that of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) for artificial insemination.
According to Press Trust of India (PTI), the Chennai-based couple, in their advertisement, have said that the ideal candidate for sperms should be an IIT student, healthy, no bad habits, tall and fair, if possible.
Offering a compensation of Rs 20,000 (US$388) for the donor, they said they are ready to give a relaxation on the looks part if he happens to be the ‘right person’.
The advertisement has shocked many students at the IIT-Madras with some describing it as ‘insane and ridiculous’.
“This is insane. How can sperm from an IITian make any difference. Intelligence cannot be measured,” Jatin Mandawat, a second year of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at IIT-M, said.
To Akash Jain (name changed) too, it sounds completely insane.
“I think this is weird. This does not make any sense at all, as if all the students in IIT are excellent in studies.”
Alex, a Bio Technology student at the IIT said, “if they were right, Albert Einstein’s relatives should be the brightest of all in the world. Excellence is mostly hard work.”
The ad also said the sperm received will be used for in-vitro procedure and added reference was required, which will be verified. — BERNAMA