San Francisco, California – from www.yahoo.com – A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the past five years through free sperm donations to childless couples he meets on the internet – and is now in trouble with authorities.

Trent Arsenault says he donates sperm out of a sense of service to help people who want to have children but can’t afford conventional sperm banks. The 36-year-old minister’s son has four more children on the way.

“I always had known through people praying at church that there’s fertility issues,” Arsenault told The Associated Press on Monday. “I thought it would just be a neat way of service to help the community.”

The US Food and Drug Administration sent Arsenault a cease-and-desist letter late last year, telling him he must stop because he does not follow the agency’s requirements for getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases within seven days before giving sperm. The FDA did not immediately respond to questions about what kind of punishment he faces.

Arsenault gets tested regularly, but following the FDA’s rules would make it impossible to keep offering his sperm for free, he said.

Arsenault believes the FDA tracked him down from his website, which advertises his availability as a sperm donor. In its letter, the agency describes Arsenault’s service as a business. Arsenault disagrees.

“This is not a business or a clinic. It’s just people partnering up to have a baby out of compassion,” he said.

At the time of the FDA letter, the Silicon Valley computer security specialist had made 328 sperm donations to 46 women, a number he said is now higher. He can continue to donate sperm while the case is pending.

The oldest child he has fathered is now four. Arsenault and the recipients, whom he describes as “intimate partners”, sign a legal agreement ahead of time stripping him of any custody rights and absolving him of any financial responsibility for the children.

But he says that part of the reason of making himself publicly visible as a sperm donor rather than remaining anonymous, as is typical with sperm banks, is because he and some of the families hope and expect he will have some involvement in the children’s lives in the future.

He says he believes his case comes down to constitutional issues of a right to privacy and reproductive choice.

“It’s not that much more different than a couple knowing each other who want to have a baby,” Arsenault said. “It’s just from me it comes in a cup versus sex.”
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from www.nbcbayarea.com – The 37-year-old Fremont man who was dubbed a “manufacturer of human cells” by the FDA, also has a side job in the adult entertainment industry.

Trent Arsenault, who is becoming known as a one-man sperm bank, has helped 14 couples get pregnant. He also has a wad of dirty videos on Xtube, an adult entertainment website.

According to Valley Wag, Arsenault has made more than 100 videos that have over 3 million views. The videos depict him in the process of making his “donations.”

“One-hundred percent of my sexual energy is devoted to being a sperm donor,” he said in an interview with Gawker.

“Having those videos helps my sex drive… which is critical to being a guy with a 200 sperm count able to help three childless couples in one month get pregnant.”

He also has a pair of photo gallery sites, which have dirty photos of himself. One of them has cranked out over 400,000 views.

Arsenault went on to say while he doesn’t flat out tell the couples who use his services, he doesn’t hide the fact that this footage is out there. In fact, his Xtube profile page links back to his official donor page.