Sperm Racing

The Free Press (River Page) reports: "The World's First Sperm Race Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was." But did it really? Did it seem too good to be true? Or good at all?

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[Paladin_44]

Pay-walled!

[Mr. Bumble]

From the NY Post:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/lifestyle/millionaires-are-hosting-the-worlds-first-sperm-race-at-iconic-venue/

[Paladin_44]

Thanks!

[Noscitur a sociis]

This would be a good example of the credulous reporting that the Free Press piece is noting, yes.

[Dr. Ed 2]

"Between 1973 and 2018, the concentration of sperm among men worldwide dropped by more than 50%....

(a) If that were happening to women, it would be a global emergency, and (b) what else does this indicate about the health of men who (c) die considerably younger than women do.

Did you miss the part about how "the event was — much like a marathon for breast cancer awareness — created to shed light on the issue of declining male fertility worldwide."

Can you imagine the outcry if there were a 50% increase in breast cancer over the past 50 years?!?

[John F. Carr]

NY Post: "This unusual contest was organized by Sperm Racing, a group of young moguls and millionaires"

If you can't trust millionaires and moguls, who can you trust?

[Dan Schiavetta]

It's organized by a 17-year-old boy, which seems predictable.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Greta Thunberg was 15...

[ConservativeProfessor]

These things come and go.

[Mr. Bumble]

There's a joke somewhere in there.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

The yolk's on whatever they were racing for.

[ConservativeProfessor]

With victory at hand, the best one can hope for is a happy ending.

[Speaking for normal people]

It is foul and detestable, generated no comments so far that are worth reading. Why publicize this crap?

[Mr. Bumble]

Why bother commenting?

[Magnus Pilatus, MBA, MD, JD, PhDx2]

To express his disapproval.

Is that okay?

[mike petrik]

Yep.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Because it is a crisis of masculinity?

[Drewski]

They have a website at spermracing dot com which is everything you hoped for, if what you hoped for is the manifesto of some coked-up fools who think they're on to something. And it is very literally a manifesto, or at least the part on the "manifesto" page is.

The "too good to be true" appears to be a paraphrase of the site's own copy, making me wonder if the Free Press thinks journalism consists of doing a few bumps with the subject.

[Mr. Bumble]

...and in other racing news:
Sovereignty beat Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby.
A metaphor for our time?

[ReaderY]

Let’s just say it’s happened billions of times before in humans alone, probably trillions counting every species that has sperm.

[TwelveInchPianist]

I know. People are talking smack as if this weren't the whole purpose of all are lives.

[TwelveInchPianist]

How do they get the numbers on?

[Frank Drackman]

They don't have any trouble getting them to stick (rimshot)

[Bored Lawyer]

Stupidity has existed as long as human beings have been alive.
But it seems that the internet magnifies stupidity by a factor of 1000.

[Noscitur a sociis]

The article is actually pretty interesting, and the operation a pretty brazen scam.

[Michael P]

Yeah, it seems like they could be in trouble with anyone who place bets on Polymarket in the last hour before the "live" event -- and that they deserve to be banned from other prediction markets.

[santamonica811]

I come just for the bad puns. Other people just, um, come.

[TwelveInchPianist]

"I come just for the bad puns."

Whatever floats your boat, although I could see where that could be awkward in some situations.

"OK, honey, I'm ready! Tell me the one about the horse with the long face!"

[darkknight9]

The only sperm race I was aware of was keeping track of how many receptive candidates/how many places I could think of leaving it in my 20's.

In my 30's I became much more refined and selective about possible depositories, narrowing down my list to about 100,000 or so.