ANext week, another contestant in Netflix’s unofficial but accurately named show category “Why don’t we raze human civilization to the ground and start over, or give it to monkeys and see if they can manage it better?” ?
It’s often called the true crime genre, but sometimes it doesn’t quite capture the head-shaking desperation as a new, heretofore unsuspected crack of depravity, psychosis, or malevolence is dug out and the results are laid before us. . For example, Kidnapped in Plain Sight tells the story of a pedophile who befriended a married couple for years and twice kidnapped their daughter with their blessing. Or The Girl in the Picture , whose twists and turns veer into utterly unbelievable yet all-too-real territory, making you consider spending the rest of your life as a hermit or vigilante. Or anything Jeffrey Epstein. Or – well, you get the gist.
Now we have another one: “The Man with 1,000 Children.” Think of it as a companion piece to the streamer’s documentary Our Fathers , which tells the story of a fertility doctor who spent 30 years secretly impregnating patients with his own sperm rather than donors or consented samples from their spouses. This time we tell the story of multiple ejaculator Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch man who seems to have traveled the world donating sperm to as many clinics in as many countries as possible . Not to mention also finding the time to make countless donations to women who prefer to obtain sperm privately and avoid sperm bank regulations regarding donor anonymity and state regulations that veto gamete providers from any offspring until the child turns 16 or 18. s contact.
Apparently, in the absence of any way to enforce the already weak rules prohibiting donors from providing excessive amounts of material, people can exploit this non-system almost endlessly if they choose to do so.
We only see a handful of the women he impregnates (occasionally through “natural donation” – sex – if the woman is single, although ending his life does not appear to be Major’s primary motivation). Gay couple Suzanne and Natalie met him as a private donor and were impressed by his good looks, health and intelligence – especially with the first donor they met After a strange encounter, the donor is revealed to be a disturbingly bald, scarred man who looks nothing like a “compassionate, kind-hearted human being.” personal information. Major told them he planned to donate to up to five families and was happy for them to be one of them. Suzanne and Natalie now have two children.
He frequently uses five dedicated lines. When suspicion was finally aroused, recipients began banding together on Facebook groups. They mapped his travels through his YouTube videos and matched them with donor lists from nearby sperm banks. Gradually it became apparent that this was not the selfless hippie young man they had met, but a man who was focused on having as many children as possible, regardless of blood ties and the potential risk of unwitting incest. Based on the information they gathered, he could have easily fathered 3,000 children so far. From Nicolette’s personal experience, she was aware that six people in her own circle of friends and among her friends’ friends had given birth to children using Major’s sperm, and the potential scale and risks of his surgery were terrifying. He refused their pleas to stop jeopardizing their/his children’s future, so they resorted to legal action.
The documentary follows the women’s stories, from the joy of early pregnancy to the revelation of fear, the solidarity of the victims, and ultimately their lawsuits in court demanding that Mayer stop donating or be fined $100,000 each Euro fine. This is believed to be the first case in which a man’s bodily autonomy is, or could be, restricted in this way or in any way.
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No firm conclusions have been drawn about his motives. You’d think a woman was being generous when she suggested seeking attention after being the neglected child in a large family. Some women hint at an addiction to power and a growing God complex; others suggest simple narcissism and male entitlement are the main drivers. Of course, his venomous reactions when they try to get answers from him show that there’s more to these people than meets the eye. It’s impossible to run out of content on Netflix or any other streaming medium.
