In 1980, a media feeding frenzy briefly surrounded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank that promised to inseminate women with the seed of the best and brightest. It was started by Robert ...

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate editor David Plotz about the debate over the use of sperm donated by homosexual men to sperm banks. Plotz's book The Genius Factory: Unraveling the Mystery of the Nobel ...

For nearly three years, journalist David Plotz worked as a semen detective. That's S-E-M-E-N. He tracked down the donors and offspring of a notorious California sperm bank, a bank that claimed to ...

David Plotz’s history of the notorious Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, “The Genius Factory,” could have been a pure romp. The characters are too larger-than-life, the events depicted too ridiculous not to be ...