article_snippet: Kelly and Anna are among thousands of British women who are flocking to Denmark to buy foreign sperm .
article_snippet: Danish sperm now accounts for a third of the total used by British fertility clinics.
article_snippet: Women from all over the world are choosing to go Scandinavian when Women from all over the world need a sperm donor, with shortages of homegrown sperm and better service cited as the main reasons for doing so.
article_snippet: According to Dr Alan Pacey, a fertility expert at the University of Sheffield, people prefer going abroad because of a lack of British sperm donors.
article_snippet: Laura Witjens, CEO of the National Gamete Donation Trust, said: 'It's much easier for a British clinic to order sperm from Denmark which is Fed-exed the next day than to try and recruit a British clinic to order sperm from Denmark
article_snippet: which is Fed-exed the next day than to try and recruit their own donors and all the hassle that goes with them own donors and all the hassle that goes with a British clinic to order sperm from Denmark
article_snippet: Most women flocking to Denmark for sperm are lesbians or single women in Most women flocking to Denmark for sperm 30s and 40s who do not see why a lack of partner should be a barrier to motherhood.
article_snippet: It is only in the past few years that there has been a 'Viking invasion' of Britain, due to changes in the law that banned anonymous sperm donation in Britain, leading to a rapid decline in donors.
article_snippet: A British sperm donor has to be prepared for the fact that any resulting child will have the right to trace A British sperm donor at the age of 18.
article_snippet: However, Danish sperm donors aren't anonymous and the detail given about A British sperm donor is extensive, which is part of the attraction.
article_snippet: With a British sperm donor, you get a number and choice of hair colour, while Danish sperm donors offer detail you can imagine including family background, job description, education and pictures of the man as a baby or child.