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Dystopia has arrived: a reality show where men compete to impregnate a woman

The men must humiliate themselves to prove their worth. The spectacle is cathartic – yet disturbing
‘Finally, someone has found a way to make a buck off the fracturing of the American family.’ Photograph: Jace Downs/Fox

Let’s watch, shall we, as a woman struggles with one of the most common sources of distress for the modern middle-aged woman: fertility. She’s got good eggs, some of them frozen, but what she needs is sperm, and the body in which that sperm is contained.

Despite being pretty in a Getty-stock-image kind of way, and despite being a successful holistic health and beauty expert, Kristy has not yet found herfantasy husband. So she has turned to reality television programming to help her out. That’s the premise

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