The dating site BeautifulPeople.com generated buzz this January by deleting the accounts of 5,000 people the website's other members judged too fat to date. Now the Danish service is back in the headlines thanks to its new virtual sperm and egg bank, designed to link would-be parents — hot and homely alike — with good-looking sperm and egg donors registered with the site. Is there anything wrong with screening donors in the hopes of ensuring attractive offspring? (Watch a Fox report about the "fertility forum")
This new service is even creepier than the site itself: There is certainly value in helping infertile couples and single women have children, says Brenna Ehrlich in Mashable. And it's awfully generous of BeautifulPeople.com to offer people who aren't "hotties" themselves access to its smoking gene pool, but "this whole venture is wandering toward the realm of eugenics — if not prancing right into it."
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