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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Arwa Mahdawi

He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding

Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-12 in 2021.
Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-12 in 2021. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Time

Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he reportedly has a weird habit of trying to donate his sperm at every opportunity – including, according to an October New York Times report, an incident where he offered some spermatozoa, as casually as you might pass the salt, to a married couple “he had met socially only a handful of times” during a Silicon Valley dinner party.

Musk has denied offering sperm to strangers over supper. But it would be in keeping with his creepy breeding fetish: Musk is desperate for people in developed countries to have more children and has himself fathered at least 12 children with three women. (One of the children has since sadly died.) He’s become one of the most famous faces of a growing pro-natalist movement – one with an unsettling overlap with eugenics and deeply misogynistic ideas.

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