Professor sires 22 kids with 18 women through sperm donation
Ari Nagel has sired 22
kids in 12 years with 18 different women who benefited from his sperm donation.
The 40 year old professor of mathematics and resident of Kingsborough, a suburb
of Brooklyn, USA, is pleased with himself as a sperm donor for dozens of locals
who are lesbians and single ladies wanting to have kids without the stress of
sperm bank or getting married.
“It’s better when it’s
fresh,” he would tell his clients. “It” is Nagel’s semen, and it’s been in high
demand. The 6-foot-2 CUNY professor has been rated number 1 dad in the United
States, The UK Sun reports.
“This isn’t
time-consuming, and I’m doing it anyway,” he says of his hand-on hobby. “It’s
very easy for me to do.”
His oldest child, now
12, was conceived with a woman he was in a committed relationship with, but all
of his offspring since, he says, have resulted from his donations.
About half the time,
he provides his seed the old-fashioned way. Sometimes, a lesbian looking to
conceive will have her partner in the bed for moral support while she and Nagel
engage in intercourse.
“She’s never slept
with a guy before, so the partner’s in bed, holding her hand,” Nagel explains.
“Sometimes, it could be a little painful, then after a few times, they’re
comfortable to do it on their own.”
Other times, he
supplies his goods in a cup, which he prefers. “I’m not doing it for easy
action,” Nagel says. “Isn’t that what Tinder is for?”
He often uses public
bathrooms, like those at Target and at Starbucks shops, to procure his samples
and hand them off to ovulating women.
“You don’t want to do
it in one where people are knocking,” he notes.
He will also offer his
services in his home near Downtown Brooklyn, but mama wannabes are often more
comfortable meeting in public.
Once a location is
chosen, Nagel will go into the bathroom, pleasure himself while watching porn
on his iPhone — “You can’t connect to Target Wi-Fi if you’re connecting to a
porn site, so I use my cell service,” he says — and ejaculate into an Instead
Softcup, a type of menstrual cup.
He then delivers the
specimen to the woman, who goes into the ladies’ restroom and inserts it into
her cervix.
“I can keep it in for
12 hours,” says Dege, a 40-year-old lesbian from The Bronx who was one of the
women meeting Nagel at the Target last week.
Dege, who declined to
give her last name, had tried a few times before using Nagel’s sperm, but
hadn’t yet conceived.
A semen-filled
cervical cup can be worn internally for up to 12 hours.
This time might do the
trick. The prolific professor is often successful, which he attributes to a
high sperm count: 85 million per milliliter.
“It’s off the charts,”
he boasts. “The clinic said they’ve never seen anything like it.”
(The Mayo Clinic says
normal sperm density ranges from 15 million to greater than 200 million sperm
per milliliter.)
Nagel made his first
foray into professional baby-making eight years ago with a friend — a single,
straight Jewish woman in her late 30s and living on the Upper West Side.
“I actually tried to
fix her up. I had a friend who I thought would be a better match as a sperm
donor,” he says. “He got cold feet at the last minute.”
So Nagel went with the
woman to the fertility clinic.
Then he helped out two
lesbians seeking a donor on Craigslist. Other women have heard about him
through friends and Known Donor Registry, a free Web site for those looking for
sperm donors.
“I’m
not doing it for easy action. Isn’t that what Tinder is for? … I just love
seeing how happy the moms and kids are. It’s the gift that keeps on giving,”
said Nagel.
Women who have used
Nagel’s services — which he provides for free — say his good looks, personality
and high sperm count are a draw.
“He’s a lot of fun to
be around, he loves people, he’s outgoing, and he’s gorgeous,” says Tiffany
Harrison, 41, of New Jersey, who with her wife, Yvonne, has a toddler daughter,
Zoe, sired by Nagel.
As for his own
motivations, the big daddy insists he just likes spreading his seed.
“I just love seeing
how happy the moms and kids are . . . That’s why I do this,” he says. “It’s the
gift that keeps on giving.”
And Nagel, who grew up
in an Orthodox Jewish family with six siblings, says he gets the benefits of
having a large brood without the hassle.
“I feel like [I’m]
getting all the joy, but also getting a good night’s rest,” he says.
Nagel has a Facebook
album of photos of his kids and regularly baby-sits and attends birthday
parties and graduations. He has even been present for a handful of deliveries.
Nagel says his name
appears on the birth certificate for just under half of his offspring. Some
take his surname, and there’s even an Ari Jr. and two Arias. A few families
have used him multiple times.
“A lot of them want
another sibling for the [first] child,” he says. And Nagel’s seed-sowing isn’t
a drain on his love life. He doesn’t make a point of mentioning it on dates,
but when it comes up, ladies typically don’t mind.
“Never underestimate
the desperation of a single woman on the Upper West Side,” he says. But it’s
not all sunshine and babies.
The first five women
he worked with successfully sued him for child support, and nearly half of his
paycheck is garnished for his offspring.
“I don’t know what’s
more surprising: that five sued or that 17 didn’t,” Nagel says. “They were all
well aware there was no financial obligation on my part. They all promise in
advance they won’t sue.”
Crystal, a Connecticut
woman who has two sons, 6 and 7, by Nagel, says she wasn’t aware of any such
arrangement.
The 45-year-old mom,
who took Nagel to court for child support, says that she was expecting to
co-parent with him and that she didn’t know of his plans to father an entire
baseball team.
“My kids got left in
the dust,” says the woman, who conceived both boys through intercourse. “You
can’t co-parent with 20-something kids.”
Nagel’s progeny isn’t
limited to the tri-state area. He has kids in Florida, Illinois, Virginia,
Connecticut and Israel. Some he sees once a week, some he sees once a year,
some he’s never met.
Despite the court
cases and child-support payments, Nagel says he has no regrets. He’s open to
more kids and says he’s in talks with several women looking to conceive,
although he admits he’s getting a bit old for the job.
“Financially, it’s
bankrupted me, but I’m still very happy with the way things turned out,” he
says. “I got 22 million in the bank — in my kids.”