# Buying Bodily Fluids

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251 "2003-07-09T15:48:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251/1 "2003-07-09T15:48:51Z")

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After asking around about ways to make a few bucks quickly, several people told me that there are medical organizations that will pay for plasma or sperm.

How much could I expect from either of these? And how do I go about locating them?

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251/2 "2003-07-09T23:33:42Z")

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The plasma places (the one near here, anyway) pay up to $50 a week, for a theoretical total of $2600/year. Look in the phone book in the nearest fair-sized city.

Once you find one, you can do what a guy I knew in college did: sell your plasma, then take the $25 and spend half on beer and half on the most expensive ($5, at the time) scratch-off lottery tickets (they have better odds than the dollar ones, y’see).

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**Author:** ![Panzerfaust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Panzerfaust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panzerfaust)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251/3 "2003-07-10T00:26:05Z")

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And man, when you’re done selling that plasma, you’ll be amazed and overjoyed and just how cheap you can drink. It’s sort of like a second compensation.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buying-bodily-fluids/187251/4 "2003-07-10T19:25:13Z")

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In some circles, there’s a black market in drug-free urine. The buyer (I’m told) hangs a condom or Ziploc of urine inside his/her clothing, and at drug-test time, the container is pierced to deliver a clean sample. Some test routines can beat this fix.