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.