# Sperm Racing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634 "2003-12-07T22:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/1 "2003-12-07T22:29:50Z")
So there’s this new game coming where people race sperm through a woman with the goal being the egg. It’s an idea by [Michael Phillips](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680635/bio). It’s going to be called Lovery Boy I can’t seem to find any web links but I saw it on G4TV’s Pulse. They showed the sperm who kinda look like [Mighty Beans](http://www.tystoybox.com/mightybeanz.htm) with little whip tails. Apparantly they’ve done their anatomy work as the racing environments are pretty acurate, right down to the distance you travel. Found a [link](http://www.loverboygame.com). I’m still unsure what to think but I had to mention it. ---
**Author:** ![noodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@noodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/noodler)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/2 "2003-12-07T23:29:33Z")
That doesn’t sound like the funnest aspect of procreation one could base a game on… ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/3 "2003-12-07T23:55:37Z")
The sperm “Montana” is Kevin Spencer’s dad. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/4 "2003-12-08T01:39:54Z")
Do the sperm at least make racing-car engine noises? ---
**Author:** ![Erroneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71c47a/32.png) [@Erroneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erroneous)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/5 "2003-12-08T04:19:27Z")
Does it support online play, with 100 million players at the same time? That’d be cool. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/6 "2003-12-08T04:36:01Z")
An idea whose time has cum? ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/7 "2003-12-08T05:03:53Z")
But can it ever replace “Let’s Make a Baby”? HOMER: Aah! Eh! Ovulate, damn you! Ovulate! VOICE: You are out of sperm. HOMER: Awww. . . ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/8 "2003-12-09T00:58:43Z")
Sounds like a scene from a Woody Allen film. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/9 "2003-12-09T01:30:54Z")
Where’s all the female sperm? Shouldn’t about half of them be so? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sperm-racing/217634/10 "2003-12-09T15:55:59Z")
I don’t know. I think it’s reasonable to depict male gametes as male. A pregnant woman doesn’t become a man just because she’s carrying a male fetus.