Ginger men, the world needs your sperm. Like, now.

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Well, well, what do you know, rangas are finally having their day in the sun.

The global network of sperm donors, Co-ParentMatch.com, has put out an urgent call for ginger sperm donors. Turns out their female members want red-haired offspring (now!), but ginger sperm is surprisingly hard to come by these days.

#SaveGingers

Co-ParentMatch.com posted the rather unusual Facebook callout with the hashtag #SaveGingers, to encourage followers to “tag a ginger mate who would make a great donor.”

According to their data, only 2 per cent of their sperm donors have ginger hair, and like truffles or diamonds or white peacocks, ginger sperm is suddenly feeling very rare and special indeed. 

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCoParentMatch/posts/1419091841503858:0

Um, why? 

Redheads have always been unmissable targets in the school playground (I know, I was one of them), so why are parents suddenly wanting ginger babies? We can only speculate, but there have been a lot of fabulously talented redheads seeping into pop culture in recent years: Ed Sheeran, Prince Harry, Amy Adams, Emma Stone. Not to mention the fictional redheads who are gracing our screens and pages: The Weasleys, Anne of Green Gables, and GOT’s Ygritte.

Certainly the rarity factor is also at play here, since making a redhead is a serious genetic roll of the dice. To even stand any chance of making a redhead, both parents have to carry the red hair gene, since it’s a recessive trait. And still, even if both parents carry the gene, there’s only a one in four chance that the baby will be ginger. Small odds – especially considering that just over 0.5 per cent (or one in 200) people are redheads. 

Don’t panic though: redheads are not about to die out

All of this panicky demand for ginger sperm makes one wonder if redheads are on the decline. There were some rumours a while back that gingers might suffer from climate change-induced extinction (more sun = less redheads) … but the jury is definitely still out on this wobbly theory, since redheads are still happily procreating with each other – albeit on a small scale. 

So. The big question is, how does a strapping ginger dude donate to this worthy cause? Co-ParentMatch.com is asking men to register and add a profile, get tested, then let the donations begin.

Good luck guys.

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