Selecting a potential father for your children, it turns out, is not unlike shopping online.
"A lot of our clients typically want their donor to be at least 180cm [5ft 11in] tall and have blue eyes," says Peter Bower, director of Nordic Cryobank, who is showing me his database of sperm donors.
Customers narrow their computer search to eliminate men who are under or over a certain
They can click on a candidate's profile and, for a fee,
Staff also provide a few sentences giving their impression of donors - a physical description or an illuminating detail, Mr Bower says, such as "that he enjoys chatting in the lab after he has donated, dresses nicely or is very interested in a particular sort of music".
But crucially, none of the information will identify an individual, unless he has chosen to be traceable.
In Denmark, sperm donation does not have to come with a name and telephone number - unlike in Britain and in a fast-increasing number of other European countries.
That has made Denmark something of a Mecca for foreign women who want to conceive by
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