By
Anna Hodgekiss
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A Dutch man has been hailed Europe’s most virile man after his charitable sperm donating led him to father 98 children.
Ed Houben started out in 2002 donating sperm to a sperm bank but now donates the ‘natural’ way God intended, he says.
Mr Houben was a virgin until the age of 34 but is now thought to be the most prolific charitable sperm donor in the world.
Personal services: Dutch man Ed Houben has fathered 98 children since becoming a professional baby maker
He helps lesbian couples, single
women and heterosexual couples with fertility problems to have children
free of charge.
And, rather than using turkey basters or syringes, he gets women pregnant the old-fashioned way – which, he tells the BBC – has a ‘much better chance of conception’.
He adds: ‘People probably think “oh, he has sex without responsibility”, but usually I’m the only person people can talk to if it doesn’t work’.
His latest child, number 98, is Madita. Her mother is a 28-year-old nursery nurse, who explains she simply never found the right man.
Desperate for a child, she began to look for a sperm donor such as Mr Houben.
And the sex? She explains they got to know each other beforehand.
Strike rate: Mr Houben gives 80 per cent of the females he has sex with a child
For couples where there are husbands in tow, he explains: ‘They are beyond these feelings of “ooh there’s a stranger sleeping with my wife”.’
He also keeps a list of mothers and children to try and reduce the risk of any mix-ups or interbreeding in the future.
‘If, later on, one of my children meets someone who doesn’t know who his natural father is, he can consult this list,’ he says.
He has sown his seed around the globe but usually waits for women to come to him these days at his home in Maastricht, although he still makes exceptions if his partners are entering a particularly fertile period. Provided they pay his travelling expenses and accommodation.
His ‘family’ lives in cities like Berlin – three children – and in Holland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France and even New Zealand.
He began donating sperm to local clinics. Then he found there was a market for procreation the natural way and he has never looked back.
Spermaspender.de. in Germany is one of the websites he uses to connect with childless women desperate to conceive.
They know Mr Houben has a good pedigree; he gives 80 per cent of the females he has sex with a child.
All his partners must submit medical records showing they are disease and drug free while he reciprocates.
Included in his paperwork is a semen analysis known as a ‘spermiogram’ that shows he is the real deal a sperm count of less than 20 million shows the potential donor is ‘not a good prospect.’
The prospects are increased for sperm counts of 80 to 100 million.
Baby maker: But at the age of 34 Mr Houben was a shy virgin still living with his mother
Mr Houben’s count is 100 million. ‘I don’t fire blanks!’ he joked.
Sperm banks generally charge around four to five thousand pounds for insemination. Mr Houben does it for free.
He used to get his partners to sign documents waiving legal claims to child support, but after being advised by a lawyer it wouldn’t hold up in court, he no relies on ‘good faith’.
‘If all the mothers decided to sue him for maintenance he would be paying them off for the rest of this life, and the next,’ said one German family lawyer.
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Paul,
London, United Kingdom,
26 minutes ago
I’ve just spoken to Stella and she wants you to call her urgent !
Mariarose,
London, United Kingdom,
29 minutes ago
Ergh, why do they have to actually have sex with him? He seems like a creep.
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