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Poll: What do you look for in a relationship?
justmyanonymousacct50

(Why anonymous? Because I have a relationship and I prefer not to write about it in "public".)

1: What traits are most important to you in a prospective partner?

Intelligence. (Ideally, someone slightly smarter than I am.)

Sense of humor--by which I mean someone who holds nothing too sacred to joke about, and who also appreciates terrible puns. And It's not enough to simply appreciate humor; they have to be able to crack a good joke themselves.

Kindness--I dated someone who was sweet to me but otherwise generally abrasive and obnoxious once. Ne... (read more)

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5[anonymous]
I peg you as female from this list. Would you mind satisfying my curiosity to let me know if I'm right?
Rationality and being child-free
justmyanonymousacct10

In the US I've found most clinics are actually fairly picky about the traits they will accept in egg "donors"--who are usually reasonably well-compensated, which is, I suppose, why they can be so selective.

(I think it might be nice to pass on my genetic material. But no one paying through the nose--or any other orifice--for genetic material wants mine. Can't say I blame them.)

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1David_Gerard
In the UK, as I said, they're desperate. IVF is a usably reliable technology, but the fact that it's the business of selling hope means that financial parasites have flocked to it, and that's led to heavy regulation ... heavy enough to put donors off. And payment is legally restricted to actual expenses, to a not very big upper limit. So the requirement is pretty much "don't have HIV or known genetic disorders." So what I said above applies if you're in the UK. Get donating!