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Oh, baby, that's a good business to be in
09 March 2025 - 00:00
Liquidating your assets is big business these days. The international sperm bank market was valued at $5bn (R92bn) in 2020 and was projected to grow at a healthy annual rate of 3.56%. That kind of rapid growth is a turn on to any capitalist, a classic supply and demand situation. In actual fact, there's such a high demand that there isn’t enough sperm to go around. In the US, a country of 360-million people, there are only 1,200 registered sperm donors. There's a bidding war going on for the best swimmers in town. ..
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