ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with anthropological and psychoanalytical approaches to donor conception in France. Contrary to common assumptions, the findings suggest that while no sexual act takes place between donors and intended parents, the interviewed fertility patients nonetheless had to deal psychologically with ideas about sexuality and incest on a psychological level. Furthermore it shows how the different ways of representing sperm donation and egg donation are related to the different cultural conceptualisations of sperm and oocyte in society, and how these conceptualisations are strongly gendered.
