Flutterby™! : The role of fathers

Fluffy (insipid, even) Washington Post article about how U.S. rules on "Mad Cow" disease in humans have caused a shortage of sperm from Scandinavian sperm banks:

Now, as the remaining vials of Nordic semen frozen in U.S. sperm banks are running out, a small but desperate number of would-be parents are frantic. Peterson has flown repeatedly to Denmark, and went again this week, to try to get pregnant with sperm from the same donor. Others are going to Canada or Mexico, or haggling with other American women who have leftover vials.

What I found interesting about this was thinking about the explanations "evolutionary psychology" and similar trends have come up with for male promiscuity. This is the sort of article that's usually later completely discredited as hogwash, something that brands as a cultural movement the behavior of five or six Manhattanites, but here's a case where the prospective mothers are treating the men involved as nothing more than a source of DNA, and where the prospective biological fathers are completely okay with that role. Humans are fascinating. And weird.