# "Egg banks"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892 "2003-06-14T20:17:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892/1 "2003-06-14T20:17:36Z")

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Is there an “egg bank” counterpart to a sperm bank? Who can become an egg donor and does one get paid?

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**Author:** ![7\_up\_yours](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/919ad9/32.png) [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892/2 "2003-06-14T20:28:36Z")

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I’ve never heard of an “egg bank” before. I don’t know how many donnors there would be if there was one. Taking eggs out requires more than rubbing yourself off. They have to go in surgically to remove those suckers.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892/3 "2003-06-14T21:59:56Z")

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There are companies that harvest eggs from donors to use for research and fertilizing sterile women who want to have children. Example: [Egg Donation, Inc](http://www.eggdonor.com/edwel.html).

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**Author:** ![Dana27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dana27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana27)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892/4 "2003-06-14T22:58:40Z")

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I believe people can get paid for eggs. Usually the money is quite good since it takes a lot more to harvest eggs as opposed to sperm. In college there were tons of adds for this sort of thing. If I was a women I could have paid for college easily.

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**Author:** ![Seraphim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Seraphim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seraphim)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/egg-banks/181892/5 "2003-06-15T01:55:57Z")

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I remember similar flyers posted around campus in Austin. I believe the going rate was around $1 to $2k per egg–not bad money, really.