Sperm Is A Sub's Dream

Sometimes after wading through acres of rebarbative, redundant, alliterative dross a sub-editor is given a story on which they can work their own little brand of magic and obsession with getting unsuitable images and suggestions into print. The Times story about Danish sperm donations swims into view as one today,

I'll just quote

The Vikings are coming

As sperm donations slow to a trickle, Denmark has become the sperm powerhouse of Europe

In the same way that some nations have oil fields or bread mountains, Denmark boasts an ever-growing sperm lake.

Fertilitetsklinikken Trianglen, north of Copenhagen, is one of these. In the hallway there is a chandelier of sperm-shaped bulbs;

“This place used to be filled with Siemens,” he says. What? “Siemens, the electronic company, had its offices here.”

Followed by a flood of sperm allusions

If you click on the drawing and you see a sperm you're pregnant