ABSTRACT
The history of donor conception illustrates that the secrecy surrounding the practice and decisions made concerning donor anonymity were focused primarily on sex, marriage, morality, adultery, masturbation, the presence of a doctor who would perform the insemination, inheritance, legal parentage and stigma concerning male infertility. As illustrated in Chapter 1, secrecy and anonymity were, and continue to be, influenced by moral, religious and/or legal views that primarily (if not solely) focus on the adults involved in the process.
