The FDA is cracking down on a San Francisco man who gives away his spooj on the internet to people he meets through his website. So far, Trent Arsenault has helped 14 couples get pregnant. But not all of them are aware that Arsenault is turning his "donations" into a torrent of amateur porn. 
 
 Scrawny 37-year-old tech worker Trent Arsenault was thrust into the spotlight after the FDA ordered him to shut down his one-man sperm bank because he's not following proper procedure. He landed on CNN, ABC News, Newsweek and more. Tapping into the Occupy Wall Street zeitgeist, he said part of his goal was to help the 99 percent who can't afford to visit a pricey sperm bank. 
 
 Last month, Arsenault's attorneys filed a brief to throw out the order, arguing his personal sexual practices shouldn't be regulated by the government. Arsenault's cause has since been embraced by an astonishing spectrum of political and cultural crusaders. The Huffington Post drooled (ahem) over Arsenault's locally-sourced, organic sperm: "We can't think of a better biological father than Trent Arsenault. Would you really rather trust some no-name who came in a cup for $50?" Right-wingers frothed over another case of government over-reaching. Daddy bloggers just want to let the guy breed. 
 
 But all the reports about Arsenault, not to mention his own website, leave out one fairly important fact. A longtime acquaintance of Arsenault's pointed out to us that Arsenault is extremely fond of posting explicit videos and pictures of his sperm donations on the web. 
 
 Aresnault's two Xtube accounts (NSFW and NSFW) feature more than 100 videos of him masturbating into sterile collection cups, using unusual aids like a water polo ball and frozen packs of organic blueberries. (Trent exclusively drinks blueberry smoothies for breakfast and dinner to boost his sperm count.) Trent's something of a celebrity on Xtube: his videos have racked up a cumulative 3 million views. Even our slutty, NSFW friends over at Fleshbot took a shine to him. 
 
 In a phone interview today, Arsenault explained that he considers himself a "donorsexual." 
 
 "100% of my sexual energy is devoted to being a sperm donor," he said. "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." 
 
 Arsenault also has a pair of picture sites. Trentnude.com is down for maintenance, but Google's cache shows it featured dozens of nude pictures including an entire gallery (NSFW) called "small penis." (Disheartening news for any Trent Jrs out there.) Then there's the gallery of Trent masturbating in an airplane lavatory, captioned with "Snakes on a Plane" jokes. Trendude.com is an underwear modeling site where the most-popular gallery has over 400,000 views. 
 
 Arsenault admits that not all of the couples who have become pregnant with his children are aware of his x-rated activities. He doesn't take pains to hide it—his Xtube site links back to his official donor page—but he doesn't actively inform couples, either. 
 
 "I don't make a point of trying to advertise that to women or couples because some people don't care to see," Arsenault said. He doesn't feel like he's deceiving his clientele, because the couples who have learned of his porn sites have been supportive. Some, he said, have even learned of him first through his adult work. 
 
 Our tipster was appalled that Arsenault hasn't been informing potential parents about his sex sites. "They need to know the whole story," they said. 
 
 But Trent obscures more than his porn sites in his donor material. His website boasts that he attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. What he leaves out is that he dropped out after about half a year in a rather bizarre fashion: by suddenly running away, hitchhiking to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and turning himself into the military prison there. 
 
 Arsenault says he was fed up with "bullying" superiors at the academy after he complained about the treatment of women there. 
 
 "I said OK, I'm just going to turn myself into prison and the government can imprison me for going AWOL," he said. (Instead, they put him on a plane back to Annapolis.) 
 
 Our source also said Arsenault was urged to seek psychological help during his time at Annapolis—Arsenault denies this, saying he only had a brief, standard mental exam when he was discharged. 
 
 Now, there's nothing wrong with shooting a bunch videos of yourself masturbating and uploading them to the internet, if that's your thing. But we do understand why a potential parent would want to be aware that half of their kids' genes are coming from a man with an apparently compulsive need to expose himself to strangers. Not to mention his odd past. Trent's elaborate official site is a masterpiece of marketing, presenting a picture of a squeaky-clean, all-American sailor which the media has been happy to reproduce. Consumers should know that Trent has another side. 
 
 So go ahead and have Trent's kid. He seems fit and genetically solid, if pretty strange. But it's worth remembering that the first stage of your child's conception might be forever memorialized as jack-off material for internet strangers. ||||| By Debbie Emery – Radar Reporter 
 
 A 36-year-old man has brought new meaning to the term “virgin birth” after revealing that he has fathered 14 children — despite never having sex. 
 
 Trent Arsenault of Freemont, California, who first hit the headlines last year for running an illegal sperm bank, appears on Tuesday’s episode of Anderson, and RadarOnline.com has a sneak peak of his bombshell revelation. 
 
 “I coined this term donor sexual and I’ll explain, it means 100 percent of my sexual energy is for producing sperm for childless couples to have babies,” Arsneault told host Anderson Cooper. 
 
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 Currently being investigated by the FDA for running his private, one-man, unregulated sperm bank, where he has donated to more than 53 couples, the tech geek confirmed that he has never had sex. 
 
 “I will probably be the 40-year-old virgin, except I’ll have 15 plus kids,” he explained. 
 
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 When the audience exploded in a round of applause, bemused Cooper responded, “Why are you all applauding? I’m not sure what the applause line on that is.” 
 
 Later in the show, Arsenault came face-to-face with one of his biological children, two-year-old daughter, Analise, for the first time. 
 
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 “It’s a thrill,” to meet her, he said. “I’m trying to not get too emotional. I’m just extremely happy that she’s healthy and in a loving home. I hope she has the gene of compassion and that her parents nurture that.” 
 
 The full interview airs on Anderson on Tuesday. You can watch a video clip right here on RadarOnline.com. 
 
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 Butt Implant Fake Doctor Victim Lets Anderson Cooper Feel The ‘Rocks In Her Face’ ||||| PORT HOPE, ONT.—Angie Collins opened her laptop one evening in June 2014 to a Facebook message she says “made her heart sink like a lead ball into my stomach.” It was from a woman in the United States who had used the same sperm donor as she had to get pregnant. They knew each other from an online forum that connects donor-conceived families. 
 
 Angie Collins, with her son in the background, is suing Xytex, a U.S.-based sperm donor clinic, alleging fraud and negligent misrepresentation, after she discovered the sperm donor she used to conceive her son had serious mental illnesses and a criminal past. ( Bernard Weil / Toronto Star ) 
 
 The woman wrote she had learned some unsettling information about their supposedly anonymous donor. He was not the healthy man advertised on his sperm-bank profile. She had discovered he has schizophrenia, a serious mental illness that, according to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, occurs in 10 per cent of people who have a parent with it. Collins, mother of a then 6-year-old son, and other moms who used the donor’s sperm frantically took to the Internet in search of information they hoped would disprove the revelation. Instead, “it just kept getting worse and worse,” she recounts in her first exclusive interview since her case made headlines around the world a year ago. 
 
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 The donor was nothing like the perfectly healthy man — aside from some colour blindness on his dad’s side — touted on the sperm bank’s website. Nor was he working on a PhD in neuroscience engineering en route to becoming a professor of biomedical robotics at a medical school. Instead, Chris Aggeles, a now 39-year-old man from Georgia, has struggled with serious mental illness for much of his adult life. In addition to schizophrenia, court documents show he has had diagnoses of bipolar and narcissistic personality disorders, and has described himself as having schizoaffective disorder. He has a history of run-ins with the law, has done time in jail, dropped out of college and struggled in the past to hold down jobs. His sperm has been used to create 36 children: 19 boys and 17 girls from 26 families, according to a 2014 email to Collins from Georgia-based sperm bank Xytex Corp. 
 
 And there may be more, says lawyer, Nancy Hersh, a San Francisco-based crusader on women’s health issues who is representing many of the families. He sold his sperm to Xytex between 2000 and 2014, she says, adding that some was stored and made available for use after that time. The international debacle has shaken confidence in the industry and fuelled a cross-border debate over the ethics of paying men for their sperm. In Canada, where it is illegal, there are calls to change the law to help address a shortage of sperm, and opposing arguments against its commercialization. Aggeles, his lawyer and some family members declined to be interviewed by the Star for this story despite repeated requests. 
 
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 Collins, a 45-year-old teacher from this quiet town east of Toronto, says she felt physically ill when she was hit with the realization her “son’s life could just turn on a dime in puberty.” “It was like a dream turned nightmare in an instant,” she says. As early as this week, she and her partner, Beth Hanson, intend to file a lawsuit against Xytex from Toronto, Hersh says, noting they have retained local legal counsel. More Canadian families may join the legal action. As well, Hersh says she intends to file additional lawsuits in the United States on behalf of affected American and British families within the next two months. Allegations against Xytex, which include fraud and negligent misrepresentation, have not been proven in court and the company denies any wrongdoing. In a recent email, Xytex lawyer Ted Lavender says the company has been in compliance with industry standards. Xytex will “vigorously defend” itself against any new lawsuits and seek to have them dismissed, he writes, adding that he has no further comment at this time. 
 
 This will mark Collins’ second attempt to get legal redress. She and Hanson tried to sue Xytex a year ago in Georgia. But the case was dismissed because it was considered more of a “wrongful birth” claim, which is not recognized under Georgia law. (This is a legal cause of action in some jurisdictions in which parents claim they were not properly warned of risks of having children with serious health problems.) An appeal was dismissed because of procedural issues. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney pointed out that the law is behind the times when it comes to dealing with advances in reproductive technologies, and suggested there should be some way for plaintiffs to seek justice. “Science has once again — as it always does — outstripped the law,” he wrote. “Plaintiffs make a compelling argument that there should be a way for parties aggrieved as these Plaintiffs are to pursue negligence claims against a service provider in pre-conception services.” Emboldened by the judge’s words, Collins and Hersh are also turning to the court of public opinion to pressure the sperm-bank industry and government to make changes. “Given the current state of affairs in the sperm-bank industry, it is strictly a matter of luck if a sperm donor is an upstanding and healthy individual, not a matter of testing, screening, regulating or legislating,” Collins charges. “Who would have thought that an industry that makes people would be like this?” 
 
 Angie Collins and her partner Beth Hanson spent about four months in 2006 researching options for conceiving a child. Their son, seen above at 7 weeks of age, is one of 36 offspring from Xytex donor 9623. 
 
 She has spent much of the last 22 months calling and writing to sperm banks, distributors and bureaucrats, urging them to address the lack of industry oversight, insufficient screening of sperm donors and Canada’s reliance on U.S. imports. Hersh calls Collins a “hero” for her ongoing efforts and for going public with the battle. “She is the Erin Brockovich of the sperm-bank set,” Hersh says. “She is very brave and courageous to be doing all of this to prevent these problems from happening to other people.” Collins always wanted to have children, but being in a same-sex relationship presented a challenge. In need of sperm, she and Hanson spent about four months in 2006 researching their options. “I didn’t have a friend in mind and my doctor was actually discouraging of using a known donor,” she says. A fertility specialist suggested using a sperm bank, explaining that finding a known donor could be difficult and raise custody issues. She was given names of three sperm banks — one Canadian and two American. The Canadian bank, one of only three in the country that accepts altruistic donations of sperm from Canadian men — had comparatively few donors to choose from, she says. Since the passage of the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which made it illegal for men to get paid for donating sperm, there has been a shortage on this side of the border, local sperm banks report. Canadians seeking sperm are largely at the mercy of foreign markets, primarily the U.S., Health Canada confirms. Collins says she chose Xytex because of its large, reportedly high-quality donor selection and claims of rigorous screening. “You can rest easy knowing right up front (that) every Xytex donor ranks in the top 1% of the population in health and wellness,” Xytex’s website boasts. Xytex tests donors and their sperm for infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis, according to the website. The company says it requires a physical exam, psychological exam, completion of an extensive questionnaire that delves into personal and family medical history, and genetic testing for a number of conditions, including cystic fibrosis. 
 
 Donors must update their medical history and undergo a physical examination every six months, the website says. As well, Xytex is compliant with Health Canada regulations, which require additional testing for conditions such as chlamydia and gonorrhea. 
 
 Chris Aggeles' sperm donor profile said he had received international acclaim for his talent as a drummer. Social media posts show he plays drums in an indie-rock band. 
 
 In 2006, Collins pored over Xytex’s online catalogue in search of a donor. From hundreds of profiles, she zeroed in on “donor 9623” because he was “the male version of my partner,” she says. Like Hanson, the man in the ad was blue eyed, intelligent, academically accomplished and musically gifted. The donor’s full profile, an archived copy of which can still be found on Xytex’s website, states he has an IQ of 160 (the same as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking), bachelor’s and master’s degrees in neuroscience and is pursuing a PhD. 
 
 He has received international acclaim for his talent as a drummer, it says. Included in the profile is a six-page health questionnaire that asks whether he or any blood relative has any of 143 medical conditions. Donor 9623 answers no to all but one; his father is colour blind. Specifically asked if he has schizophrenia or manic depression (bipolar disorder), 9623 responds “no.” 
 
 For an extra fee, prospective families could download an audio interview of 9623, conducted by Xytex corporate donor counsellor Mary Hartley, who praises him as the “perfect donor.” Obtained by the Star, the 2006 recording portrays an articulate and impressive-sounding young man who says he speaks five languages, is studying artificial intelligence and plans on becoming a professor of biomedical robotics at a medical school. He says he reads four or five books a month (“non-fiction mostly”) and tells of once winning a pizza party at Pizza Hut because he read 300 books in a single month. Commenting on his motivation to donate, 9623 says: “Sure, at first the money is definitely an attraction. I would be lying if I said it wasn’t, but what really has kept me coming is the fact that I know that I am helping … to give parents who are very eager to have a child one of the greatest gifts in the world, their child. I can’t deny the power of that.” Hartley gushes over 9623, telling him she knew from the first time she met him five years earlier that he had an above-average IQ. She says she always knew he was motivated by more than money: “Gosh, you are lucky if you get a handful of men like you. I have been here two decades and I’m telling you, it’s hard to get guys (like you). The monetary compensation is what gets people’s interests, but I could tell you were going to be someone who would stick with it … just because you had a lot of integrity and it means just more than the income.” Hartley tells 9623 that it’s difficult to get donors of his calibre and that it’s men like him who make sperm banks above average: “I just remember thinking, good gosh, what a mature young man you were and I could just tell from our first conversation that you were very special . . . I said, ‘Oh my gosh, you are going to be the perfect donor.’” The interview was not available when Collins chose 9623. The written profile was nevertheless enough to sell her on him. She admits there was one sentence that gave her pause: “The medical and social history was provided by the donor and cannot be verified for accuracy.” Collins says she was concerned enough to call Xytex and alleges that her misgivings were allayed when a company representative told her: “We do all of our own internal testing to the degree that you will know more about your donor than your own partner.” 
 
 A distributor imported the sperm to Canada. Collins was impregnated through artificial insemination at a Toronto fertility clinic. She gave birth to her son in July 2007. The mothers who used 9623’s sperm learned of his real identity when Xytex released it to some of them in a 2014 email, seemingly inadvertently and “in a breach of confidentiality,” Hersh says. The curious moms naturally took to the Internet to learn what they could about James Christian “Chris” Aggeles. A U.S. mom was the first to spot trouble when she stumbled across a YouTube video of a young woman describing her struggles with schizophrenia. In 2012, an individual by the name of Chris Aggeles added this comment to the video, which has since been taken down: 
 
 “I have schizophrenia, and the ‘hearing voices’ is kind of hard to explain, but here goes: so I will be thinking something like, what I am going to make for dinner, and it’s like my thought gets interrupted by a voice that tells me something that usually has nothing to do with what I was just thinking. It’s usually mean, and will say things that are derogatory and demeaning to me.” Hersh says she interviewed Aggeles while preparing the first lawsuit against Xytex and that he acknowledged there were misrepresentations in his profile. Through public record searches, the Star has verified Aggeles’ donor profile contained incorrect information and has discovered additional details about his mental health, criminal past, education and work history. An Oct. 2005 forensic report, obtained from the Cobb County Superior Court in Georgia, shows he was charged with burglary seven months earlier, when he was 28. He allegedly broke into a house and stole a large number of musical instruments. The report was prepared by a psychologist who assessed him and determined he was competent to stand trial despite being mentally ill. There was some disagreement over Aggeles’ diagnosis with hospital records showing an earlier diagnosis of cannabis-induced psychotic disorder had been changed to schizophrenia. The report also states Aggeles had experienced “significant grandiose delusions” and been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder as well as bipolar disorder. Aggeles told the psychologist he had a seven-year history of psychiatric problems and had been hospitalized “numerous” times. The forensic report goes on to say that he had a history of arrests for trespassing, DUI and disorderly conduct. The Star was unable to confirm the outcome of those arrests. The Star also obtained from the court a transcript from a Nov. 2005 hearing during which Aggeles pleaded guilty to the burglary charge. Aggeles is quoted as telling the court he has bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. The transcript indicates he was not receiving proper medical treatment at the time of the break-in, but by his plea hearing, was on medication and regularly seeing a psychiatrist. His stepfather testified that Aggeles had suffered a series of psychotic episodes since age 19. Prior to that, the young man was on a promising trajectory. Very bright, he graduated from high school as an honour student and began studying at the University of Georgia (UGA) on a full scholarship. “High stress situations and lack of medication cause him to have psychotic episodes . . . With supervision with medication, I think he is a productive citizen,” the stepfather told the court. Aggeles mother also testified her son committed the burglary because his medication had been changed “and he was not mentally sane as a result and decided to take affairs into his own crazy head.” She explained he had a “very sporadic” work history and was not able to hold jobs for long. At the time, he had been working at the Outback Steakhouse for a month and prior to that at “a pizza place” for two months. But things “finally” seemed to be turning around for Aggeles, his mother told the court, explaining that “for the first time in 10 years,” he was able to take care of his mental health, education and employment. Facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, Aggeles was sentenced instead as a first offender, a disposition that meant a felony conviction would not appear on his record so long as he obeyed numerous conditions, among them staying on medication and continuing medical treatment. He was ordered incarcerated for eight months with the rest of a 10-year sentence to be served on probation, according to a copy of the disposition obtained by the Star. Aggeles promised to return to Athens Technical College from where he had dropped out the previous year. He said he wanted to get his grade point average up, return to UGA and get his scholarship back. “I’m very repentant and it’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever done,” Aggeles told the court. “I will never, ever commit another crime.” In delivering her sentence, Justice Adele Grubbs said: “Somehow he’s got to learn that he is personally responsible for his actions, not anybody else.” Aggeles did manage to make it back to UGA, graduating just last year. Two decades after starting at the university, he graduated with a bachelor’s in cognitive science, minoring in computer science, according to the registrar’s office. He attended the university in 1995 and 1996, then again from 2012 to 2015. He has also attended Kennesaw State University. Another inconsistency that jumped out at the families relates to photographs of Aggeles posted on his donor profile on the Xytex website. A childhood photo included in an early version of the profile showed a large mole on his cheek. But in a later version of the profile, a photo of the donor at a younger age curiously showed no mole. Hersh alleges it was doctored. Xytex denies this and says the donor provided signed photos of himself and that the company never altered them. Aggeles appears to be doing well today. He is currently enrolled in a master’s program in artificial intelligence and working at UGA as a research assistant. Social media posts show that he got married last summer and that he plays drums in an indie-rock band. Xytex maintains it has done nothing wrong. In an open letter posted on the company’s website last April, president Kevin O’Brien indicated Xytex relies on the honour system when it comes to collecting medical and social histories of donors. Xytex has always been upfront about letting would-be parents know the company does not corroborate such information, he said. “He (Aggeles) reported a good health history and stated in his application that he had no physical or medical impairments. This information was passed on to the couple, who were clearly informed the representations were reported by the donor and were not verified by Xytex,” O’Brien wrote, referring to Collins and Hanson. Collins and Hersh want sperm banks to do more rigorous vetting of donors, specifically by getting applicants to sign releases granting access to medical records. They also want sperm banks to do thorough criminal and education background checks. Given that donors can make up to $150 per donation, there is an incentive for men who would not pass the screening process to lie to make money, Hersh argues. This may be particularly attractive to those who have trouble finding employment, for example, men who are seriously mentally ill and ex-cons, she says. 
 
 The pair wants Xytex to create a medical fund so that offspring created from Aggeles’ sperm can be monitored as they grow for early signs of mental illness. Disorders such a schizophrenia are usually not diagnosed until the late teens and 20s. The fund would also be used for early intervention and treatment so the children could live the best lives possible. They also want Xytex to make good on a pledge on its website to inform parents of “new information” it learns about donors, which its medical director deems medically significant. Hersh says she is in contact with 16 families who have 23 children between them and none have been informed by Xytex about problems with donor 9623. Collins wants the Canadian government to amend the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which made it illegal to pay sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates anything but expenses. She may have found a friend in Quebec Liberal MP Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal). A lawyer, he has been pushing for changes to the legislation since getting elected last October, prompted by friends who have hit him up for free legal advice after being stymied in their attempts to expand their families through assisted reproduction. They have been forced to look abroad for sperm, eggs and surrogates because the legislation limits availability here, he says, explaining that demand for assisted human reproduction is growing because of the increase in same-sex unions, single parents and women conceiving later in life. “We need to have a Canadian solution,” argues Housefather, adding that it’s “ludicrous” Canadian men cannot sell their sperm, but that Canada allows imports from countries where men can be paid. “Nobody is going to do this unless they are compensated,” he argues, noting that prior to the legislation there were “dozens of sperm banks” in Canada where Canadian men could sell their sperm and now there are only three where men can donate without pay. Housefather would also like to see regulations adopted requiring sperm banks to obtain medical records from donors and to do thorough background checks to confirm information provided by donors, for example criminal and education background checks. But others, including academic Alana Cattapan, warn that allowing men to sell their sperm is a bad idea. The post-doctoral fellow studying assisted reproduction at Dalhousie University says one reason the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was introduced was to prevent commercialization of human tissues and fluids. Though 22 years have elapsed since it came into force, the principle behind it remains important to Canadians, she contends. Cattapan argues the focus should instead be on facilitating altruistic donation of sperm around the world, that is, sperm that’s actually donated rather than sold. She cautions against continuing down the slippery slope of “reproductive capitalism,” warning that it’s ethically fraught. From all appearances, Collins’ son, now 8, is happy and healthy. The sweet, blond boy does well in school and is musically gifted. Like his donor, he plays the drums. But Collins can’t help but worry for him. “The most important entity to me is potentially facing a very debilitating lifestyle,” she says. She says she feels cheated: “I felt like I was duped by Xytex and I failed my son for having chosen Xytex. In hindsight, a hitchhiker on the side of the road would have been a far more responsible option for conceiving a child.” When Collins’ story hit the airwaves last April, she was forced to provide “my lad,” as she calls him, with age-appropriate information about the case. “I told him, ‘The man who helped create you and all your half siblings has something wrong with his brain. He shouldn’t have been donating and the company shouldn’t have been promoting him. We want to make sure that all you kids are safe in the future so we’re suing. “He didn’t ask at the time what was suing and we didn’t have to explain that. But he did ask, ‘So mommy, am I OK?’ “’You are fine right now,’ I said. He was like ‘OK’ and off he went.” 
 
 Angie Collins’ son, 8, is happy and healthy, but she is worried is facing a "potentially debilitating lifestyle." ( Bernard Weil ) 
 
 Read more about: ||||| Jennifer Moss is not your typical Reddit user. Every week, the 33-year-old utility company analyst from Marietta, Ga., reads posts on the social news site Reddit to see if she can help people who say they are in need. A father says he can’t afford to take his son on a trip? She sends him gas money via Paypal. A pregnant mom says she ran out of food stamps to buy vegetables? She sends her a gift card to a produce company. “Just because I never met them, doesn’t make them any less in need,” Moss said. 
 
 Last month, nearly 170 million visitors flocked to the site, which currently boasts more than 9,600 active communities that are typically devoted to niche subjects, anything from diet and exercise to video games. And while the site has occasionally drawn attention for the wrong reasons — a spokesperson apologized in 2013 for users who falsely accused a student of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing — its most fervent participants celebrate Reddit for fostering a vibrant community. 
 
 On May 28, 2014, Kayla Davis of Columbia, S.C., posted a message on the site about her need for a kidney transplant. Since age 10, Davis had suffered from a kidney disease called glomerulonephritis, which damages the parts of the organs that filter waste and fluids from the blood. She had been on dialysis for the last three years, which always left her feeling exhausted. Playing video games like The Legend of Zelda was the only thing Davis said she could do that wouldn’t wipe her out. 
 
 Davis was looking for a live donor with an O blood type. After setting up an unsuccessful Facebook page and realizing her mom and brother weren’t good matches because they have thyroid problems and high blood pressure, respectively, Davis, a 26-year-old, turned to Reddit. “It was almost like a last resort,” she said. 
 
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 Five hours after the plea was posted, Moss posted a note of her own, saying she would call a living donor coordinator the next day and start the necessary tests to see if she was a match. They were. And Moss decided to donate her kidney. “I have something that the other person needs, and if it’s not going to hurt me, why not?” she thought. 
 
 Over the next nine months, the pair exchanged messages on Facebook three to four times times a week and found out they had more in common than a blood type. They both loved pizza, which Davis couldn’t eat when she was on dialysis. They also loved dogs, especially corgis. Moss regularly sent Davis photos of her corgi-Jack Russell terrier mix Conan, named after comedian Conan O’Brien, to keep Davis’s spirits up. 
 
 They met for the first time in March before the transplant surgery at Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta. The surgery took place on March 26. It was a success: both women were up and walking the next day. Worried that Davis would be bored or lonely when Moss was discharged first, she and her fiancé Chris Telford bought the younger woman a tablet computer so she could keep up with friends back home. 
 
 The pair are not the first organ donor and recipient to meet through social media. Last year, a 36-year-old man found a live kidney donor on the social network, and a Minnesota mother found one for her two-year-old daughter after making a Facebook page. Over the past month, Sammy Griner, an 8-year-old boy known from the Internet’s popular “Success Kid” meme, raised more than $100,000 for his dad’s kidney transplant surgery through crowdfunding. And in March, a photo of an ad on the back of a man’s pickup truck pleading for a live kidney donor for his wife went viral on Reddit, flooding the University of Colorado hospital’s voicemail with calls from potential matches. 
 
 Moss hopes the chance way she met Davis can set an example. As of April, more than 101,000 Americans were waiting for a kidney, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. “If someone can see how easy it was for me to go through this process,” Moss said, “they might look at themselves and go, ‘Well, I could do it.’” 
 
 Finally off dialysis, Davis says she wakes up before 6 each morning filled with energy. She plans on getting a driver’s license. She wants to apply to college and pursue a career in computer science. Davis continues to share her story on Reddit, posting reguarly to let fellow users know about her recovery. And in September, Davis will see Moss again. This time, they’ll meet at Moss’s wedding. 
 
 Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com. ||||| RIGHT NOW POLICE ARE CALLING THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT. NEW AT 6:00 O'CLOCK, TWO RELATIONSHIPS, ACCUSATIONS OF STOLEN SPERM AND A LEGAL DAYS HAS GONE TO TRIAL. ALL OF THIS UNFOLDING IN A DOWNTOWN COURTROOM TONIGHT. ONE MAN AND A WOMAN WITH WHOM HE WAS PREVIOUSLY INVOLVED ARE SUING ANOTHER WOMAN HE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH TOGETHER WITH A HOUSTON SPERM BANK. SYAN RHODES LIVE DO YOU NOT WHERE THE TRIAL GOT UNDERWAY. QUITE AN INTERESTING CASE HERE. Reporter: YEAH. A LOT OF TWISTS AND TURNS WITH THIS ONE. ONE MAN, TWO WOMEN AND A BABY CONCEIVED WITH FROZEN SPERM THAT SOME SAY HIS MOTHER DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO USE. IN 2002, LANE HARDEN AND KATHERINE WERE A COUPLE WHO ALREADY HAD ONE CHILD TOGETHER WHEN THEY DECIDED TO FREEZE HARDEN'S SPERM BEFORE HE HAD A HAVE A SECOND MOW. THEY VISITED A HOUSTON FERTILITY CLINIC AND STORED EIGHT VIALS OF SPERM. ACCORDING TO THE LAWSUIT, THE COUPLE HAD AN AGREEMENT THAT IF HARDEN DIED OR THEY BROKE UP, SHE COULD DO WHAT SHE WANTED WITH THE SPERM. THE COUPLE DID SPLIT AND HARDEN AND HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND VISITED THE SAME CLINIC IN 2008. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS SHORTLY AFTER THEY SPLIT IN 2009, DUVAL WENT BACK TO THE CLINIC AND GOT VIALS OF HIS SPERM AND BECAME PREGNANT AND GAVE BIRTH TO A BOY IN 2010. IT'S GOING TO BE A SPIRITED TRIAL, HEATED TRIAL, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE ULTIMATELY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. Reporter: LEBLANC AND HARDEN ARE SUING DUVAL, HER DOCTOR AND THE CLINIC THAT STORED THE SPERM. THEY'VE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY. I THINK ALL SIDES WOULD AGREE THERE THING HAS GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME AND ALL SIDES WOULD PROBABLY AGREE THAT IT NEEDS TO COME TO RESOLUTION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. Reporter: IN HIS OPENING STATEMENTS, TOBY DUVAL'S ATTORNEY SAID HIS CLIENT SOMEBODY DISMISSED SAYING IT'S ABOUT JEALOUSY. THE SPERM BANK SAID HIS CLIENT DID NOTHING WRONG. REPORT AUGUST LIVE FROM THE CIVIL COURTHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN 
 
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 Trial began Tuesday in a civil lawsuit against a Houston fertility clinic and a woman accused of getting pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's sperm without his permission. 
 
 In 2002, Layne Hardin and Katherine LeBlanc of Louisiana, were a couple who already had one child together when they decided to freeze Hardin's sperm before he had a vasectomy. 
 
 They visited West Houston Fertility Center, now operating as Texas Andrology Services, and stored eight vials of Hardin's sperm. 
 
 According to the lawsuit, the couple had an agreement that if Hardin died or they broke up, LeBlanc could do what she wanted with the sperm. 
 
 LeBlanc and Hardin did split and in 2008, he visited the same clinic with his new girlfriend, Tobie Devall. 
 
 The lawsuit claims when Devall and Hardin split in 2009, Devall went back to clinic and used two vials of Hardin's sperm without his permission to get pregnant through artificial insemination. Devall gave birth to a boy in 2010. 
 
 LeBlanc and Hardin are now suing Devall, her doctor and the clinic that stored the sperm. 
 
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 "They've been waiting patiently. It's gonna be a spirited trial, a heated trial and we believe ultimately the justice system will take care of itself," said Cade Bernsen, Hardin and LeBlanc's attorney. 
 
 Monday a jury of nine men and five women were selected to hear the case. 
 
 In opening statements, Duvall's attorney said his client should be dismissed from the lawsuit saying it was just about jealousy. 
 
 The lawyer for the sperm bank said his client did nothing wrong. 
 
 Testimony begins Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. ||||| Home » Trent's Profile Abstinence and sperm donation, sex, health and longevity Submitted by: trent on Jan 4, 2011 - (Last updated: Aug 4, 2011) According to the US HHS website, millions of dollars are spent on funding abstinence programs. Many recipients have asked Trent if he would be abstinent while donating, and Trent has had the perception and intuition throughout his adult life to know this would be an important quality of a donor. Article Quotes Canada 'Forces' Sex With Strangers for Sperm Donation‎ The Stir (blog) - Christie Haskell - Dec 14, 2010 
 
 "I'm not entirely sure what Health Canada expects to accomplish with their latest announcement. People who go through alternate avenues to get donor semen are likely already aware of the legal process and find it prohibitive and overly restrictive -- after all, if it were affordable and easy, who wouldn't go the legal route every time" Internet sperm trade risky: Health Canada "According to Canadian law you MUST be sexual partners in order to avoid legal action," 
 
 "Frankly, ever since the laws in Canada came into existence, egg donation in Canada — in Montreal at least — has ground to a virtual halt," says Dr. Seang Lin Tan Craigslist Sperm Donor Who Stalked Mom Part of Growing Dilemma - AOL Health - Sep 13, 2010 "She avoided using an anonymous donor because she wanted her child to know his dad. One of her friends jokingly suggested she try classified-ad site Craigslist."
– A 36-year-old California man who boasts he's an "organic" sperm donor and has fathered 14 children through his free donations, has never had sex, he has revealed. Silicon Valley computer security specialist Trent Arsenault tells Anderson Cooper today that he's a "donorsexual" who has committed "100% of my sexual energy for producing sperm for childless couples to have babies. So I don't have other activity outside of that." An incredulous Cooper asks: "So you do not have sex?" Arsenault responds: "I will probably be the 40-year-old virgin—except I'll have 15-plus kids." Arsenault's free sperm bank, operated out of his home, has been ordered to shut down by the US Food and Drug Administration for possible health violations. The FDA alleges that Arsenault hasn't taken the legally required precautions to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, reports the Mercury News. Arsenault claims the FDA is opposed to his one-man shop because the sperm is "fresh" instead of frozen, and hasn't been quarantined. "I'm helping people in need," he told the Huffington Post. "I'm not running a business here." To make everything a tad weirder, Arsenault touts the importance of "abstinence" during sperm production on his website. To top that, Gawker has dubbed Arsenault an "amateur porn star" for the explicit videos he has posted of him "donating sperm" (yep, into a cup) on the web. The program airs today.