Ari Nagel has been nicknamed “the Sperminator” and for good reason: the 42-year-old college professor has impregnated 24 different women, siring 29 children — with three more on the way!
Nagel sat down with Maury Povich on his eponymous talk show to explain why he believes it’s his mission in life to, as the Bible proclaims, “be fruitful and multiply,” revealing it all started 13 years ago when he responded to a Craigslist ad placed by a woman looking for a sperm donor. And boy, did he run with it!
“If someone asks me for my semen, I will not turn them down,” Nagel tells Povich in the video above. “Any race, any religion, gay or straight, I won’t turn any woman away.”
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Amazingly enough, Nagel is married, and has three children with his wife — who, according to a 2016 article in the New York Post — is understandably not thrilled with his “hobby,” and had no idea about what he had been up to. (Nagel admitted at the time that she was “livid” and “has been yelling at me a lot.”)
As you might imagine, Nagel’s parental life is somewhat complicated. “I am a full-time parent to some of the children,” he tells Povich, adding that he uses a spreadsheet to keep track of them all. “Some I see every day, some I see once a week and some I see once a year. It’s really up to the moms.”
His pursuit has also proven to be costly, as he’s currently paying child support for nine of his progeny, even though “some of the women promised [him] that they wouldn’t sue me for child support but they went back on their word,” and reveals that more than half of every paycheque goes toward child support.
