Author Katy Faust profileHistory is littered with powerful men who collected women the way empires collect territory, for the express purpose of producing as many children as possible. The dehumanizing “harems” that modern civilization rightly rejected are now returning under a new name: Big Fertility.

A recent Wall Street Journal profile of Pavel Durov describes the tech mogul paying women to bear his children using his sperm. Durov has reportedly said he wants to help fight infertility, framing his mass reproduction as altruism rather than indulgence. He has publicly boasted that he has more than 100 of his own children, enabled by artificial reproductive technology. …

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