text: 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. ||||| Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. ||||| Submitted by: trent on Feb 8, 2011 - (Last updated: Dec 19, 2012) 
   
   Summary: 
   
   The cease manufacturing order was issued 01-Nov-2010 and is online at: 
   
   http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/TissueSafety/ucm232852.htm 
   
   Timeline: 
   
   
   
   To contact your Senator or the FDA Commissioner to voice a concern, e-mail info is listed below. 
   
   Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner 
   
   Click to e-mail her directly: margaret.hamburg@fda.hhs.gov 
   
   Diane Feinstein, US Senator from California 
   
   a.) Click this link: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.Emailme 
   
   b.) Choose Health as the Topic and fill out the form 
   
   Barbara Boxer, US Senator from California 
   
   a.) Click this link: http://boxer.senate.gov/en/contact/policycomments.cfm 
   
   b.) Choose Health or Women's Issues as the Topic and fill out the form 
   
   Outside of California: Below is a link to Senators for all 50 states: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm If you are not from California, couples anywhere in the USA could be affected, because the cease manufacturing of semen is based on federal law. 
   
   
   
   Copies of the above referenced material: 
   
   FDA Order to Cease Manufacturing - 01-Nov-2010 
   
   online at http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/TissueSafety/ucm232852.htm 
   
   
   
   
   
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   A PDF of this same document is available here: FDA-order-to-cease-manufacturing-trentdonor-2010-1101.pdf 
   
   
   
   Letter to FDA Commissioner - 28-Nov-2010 
   
   
   
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   Letter to CBER Compliance (PDF) 
   
   
   
   
   
   Reply to Cease Manufacture / 486 Response 01-Nov-2010 
   
   
   
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   Inspection Observations 20-Sep-2010 
   
   Signed Affadavit 17-Sep-2010 
   
   Request for Extension to Reply 01-Oct-2010 ||||| 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’ ||||| Thank you for visiting San Jose Mercury News. We are sorry the article that you requested is no longer available. Please search for this article in our archive search. ||||| 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."
target: – 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.