Women have preferences for the kind of men they prefer for sperm donors. Queensland University of Technology reported, women want a sperm donor who is intelligent but shy. In a study focusing on how women choose men as sperm donors online it has been discovered that women prefer men who are calm, shy, methodical and intellectual overall to help them produce children over men who are extroverted.
This study dealing with how women choose sperm donors was done by Stephen Whyte and Professor Benno Torgler from QUT’s Queensland Behavioural Economics Group. Whyte says an informal online market has evolved for sperm donors because worldwide demand has been so great. This manner of producing new kids is more attractive to many women than the more formal fertility clinics.
Women were not as likely to choose the sperm of men who are socially awkward. They also were not as likely to choose men who had lively and extroverted personalities. Whyte says it has previously been shown by research that people are good at judging personality traits and degrees of intelligence with only limited exposure to their appearance and behaviors. The findings in this research appear to support that view.
This study has been published in the journal Applied Economics Letters. An informal online market for sperm donation has emerged because the actual worldwide demand for sperm donors is significantly more than the actual supply which is available through fertility clinics. Sperm donors with less outgoing and lively personality traits who are more shy, systematic and intellectual were found to be met with greater success in realizing offspring via informal sperm donation. These findings help us appreciate what most women find to be the most desirable character traits in men whom they want to have children with.
