by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with
donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.
Rather than utilizing professional
sperm banks, a growing number of people are choosing
donors from among family and friends, thereby making the process more closely resemble an open adoption.