Seed robbery

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Samenraub defines the Duden since 2013 as the " procurement of sperm of a man by a woman with the intention of it without his consent to fertilization own eggs to use ". The term was introduced into the media discussion in 2001 about the circumstances surrounding the conception of Boris Becker's illegitimate daughter and subsequently achieved lasting popularity.

Descriptions of actions that come close to this definition of sperm robbery can be found in the Old Testament , Egyptian , Jewish and Greek mythology , in the thought world of superstitions of the Middle Ages and the time of the witch hunt , mostly during sleep or in a deliberately induced state of the Intoxication. In recent times, the term sperm robbery has been increasingly used in media reporting in connection with legal disputes.

Use of terms

In the spelling dictionary, the term seed robbery has only been recorded in its current use since the 26th edition. As a starting point for the lexeme , the heading Was it seed theft? an article related to Boris Becker that appeared in the BILD newspaper on January 17, 2001 . The word was subsequently picked up by the media and spread widely.

Early occasional mentions with different or similar meanings:

  • As a term for animals, especially insects and birds, that damage sown seeds by stealing seeds , the word appears very early, for example in 1803 and also from the 1930s. The term “seed robber” derived from this is occasionally used as a strategy in behavioral biology.
  • 1912 reference is made to seed theft (and fire robbery ) in connection with the central themes of heroic myths in the yearbook for psychoanalytic and psychopathological research .
  • The poem I had them all by Andreas Schäfler was published in the taz in 1994 with the lines: " The capacity for ear, nose and throat / With a figure like Sophie Loren / Was Barbara flower dust, lays me flat / Was also, as far as the sperm robbery is concerned, from the specialist. "

Mythology and religion

The Osiris myth of Egyptian mythology describes how Nephthys , the childless twin sister of Isis , from whose husband Osiris becomes pregnant. According to Plutarch , she poses as Isis. After his birth, Anubis is raised by Isis. At a later point in time, Isis reassembles the body of the murdered Osiris, whereby she succeeds in becoming pregnant with Horus from the seed of Osiris .

The motif of seed theft is also found in Greek mythology. The goddess Penia lay without consent to the drunk on nectar Poros and received Eros . The ancient Greek poet Parthenios of Nicaea tells of Hemithea who, at the behest of Staphylos, son of Dionysus , fathered a child with Lyrkos, son of Phoroneus , after he had been made drunk by Staphylos. After Lyrkos' anger had dissipated, he left the child a badge so they could find him later.

Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet: Lot and his daughters , around 1750

In the Tanakh and the Book of Genesis there is the story of Lot's daughters who, after the destruction of Sodom, in the absence of other men, made their father drunk and became pregnant by him without his knowledge in order to ensure the continued existence of their people ( Gen. 19:30 - 38  EU ); as well as the story of Tamar , who, unrecognized because disguised as a " prostitute " , lets her father-in-law, Judah, get pregnant.

The idea of demons that haunt people in their sleep is found in Jewish and Christian mythology (see Lilith ). They feed on the life energy of sleeping people with whom they mate at night. A succubus steals the semen of the sleeping man unnoticed, who can only remember the next day in the form of a dream. During the early modern witch hunt, sexual intercourse with the devil ( Teufelsbühschaft ) was regarded as an act deliberately desired by a warlock or a witch, with the devil appearing to men in the form of a succubus and women as an incubus . In the Hexenhammer it is described how the succubus changed after coitus and, unnoticed by the man, whose semen was then used in the form of an incubus to impregnate a woman.

Legal proceedings and media coverage

The term sperm robbery gained increased popularity in 2001 with the coverage of an affair by Boris Becker in 1999.

There are isolated reports of proceedings in connection with sperm theft in the media, such as the case in 2011 in which three women had to answer before a court in Zimbabwe for sexual assault and sperm theft of 14 men and in 2011 a court hearing in Antalya about a case of alleged sperm theft . In 2005, an appeals court in Illinois saw a case where the court ruled that child support payments were legal . A woman had demanded child support and recognition of paternity from her former boyfriend after she used the man's semen for her own fertilization after fellatio in 2000 , without informing him or the birth of the child. The man then sued for damages because of emotional stress .

With a BGH judgment of February 21, 2001, a post-marital maintenance claim of a woman for looking after a child that was conceived by means of homologous in vitro fertilization was approved. The woman had continued the treatment after the husband wanted to end it because he wanted to separate and had become pregnant with the help of his sperm donation. The judges referred, among other things, to a BGH ruling of April 17, 1986 about the case of a woman who, without her partner's knowledge , had stopped taking the previously agreed pill and had become pregnant by him.

On February 4, 2013, the 22nd  civil senate of the Hamm Higher Regional Court dismissed a man's claim for indemnification for exemption from maintenance obligations in the so-called “semen robbery process”, thus deviating from the lower court judgment of the Dortmund Regional Court . The man claimed that his signature on the informed consent form had been forged and that his semen sample had been used for artificial insemination without permission . The court did not follow this account.

Reception in literature

  • Roald Dahl's short novel Uncle Oswald and the Sudan Beetle from 1979 describes the trade in semen of prominent personalities, which is sold to women for fertilization without their knowledge.
  • A piece from the 2001 album Abgeschleppt - a man's fate by Bernd Gieseking is entitled Seed robbery in East Westphalia .
  • An episode of the novel Donna in guerra by Dacia Maraini from 2002 describes how a woman secretly uses the sperm to impregnate her servant after fellatio with her husband.
  • In the story Gina Regina in Ulrike Draesner's book of short stories Hot Dogs , published in 2004, a student sells the seeds of her love affairs on the Internet without their knowledge and thus secures her livelihood.
  • Stephen King takes up the incubus / succubus myth in his novel Susannah , published in 2004 , by having an incapable of childbearing demon impregnate a woman with stolen sperm.
  • The 8th episode of the 5th season of the series Caretaker Krause - Order must be , broadcast in 2005, is entitled Seed Robbery . The daughter of caretaker Krause wants to bind a celebrity to herself by stealing seeds.
  • Ethan Coen 's play Women or Nothing , which premiered in 2013, sketches a plot about a planned pregnancy, about which the man involved should be left in ignorance.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duden: Seed robbery.
  2. ↑ Duden 01. The German spelling: The comprehensive standard work on the basis of the current official rules. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin, 26th edition (July 4, 2013), ISBN 978-3411040162 .
  3. ↑ According to the Duden editorial team, the earliest records in the electronic text collection there on contemporary German go back to 2001, "but it was initially difficult to assess whether the word would establish itself in everyday language in the long term."
  4. ↑ IDS Publication Server, Doris Steffens: Do you have to remember the word seed theft? (PDF; 2.3 MB), Sprachreport 17 (2001) issue 4, pp. 2–5.
  5. ↑ Selection of new inventions, discoveries and improvements in economy, urban and agriculture, agriculture, cattle breeding. Volume 6, Daisenberger, 1803, p. 7
  6. ↑ Annuaire agricole de la Suisse, Eidgenössisches Volkswirtschaftsdepartement, Switzerland. Trade, Industry and Agriculture Department. Agriculture Department, Verlag Verbandsdruckerei (1934), p. 1140
  7. ↑ Peter M. Kappeler: Behavioral Biology. Springer (2006), p. 191
  8. ↑ Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung: Yearbook for psychoanalytic and psychopathological research. Franz Deuticke (1912), Volume 4, p. 533
  9. ↑ taz, December 19, 1994, truth page
  10. ↑ Geraldine Pinch: Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0195170245 , p. 171.
  11. ↑ Bojana Mojsov: Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God. Blackwell Publ., 2005, ISBN 1405110732 , p. 20.
  12. ^ Clemens M. Hutter: Hexenwahn und Superstlaube. Ecowin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3902404507 .
  13. ↑ Katrin Moeller: The changeling. Magic as a denominational construct (abstract). In: @ KIH-eScript. Interdisciplinary witch research online 4, 2012, issue 1, columns 8-17.
  14. ↑ Lyndal Roper : Witch Mania: History of a Persecution. CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 3406540473 , p. 141.
  15. ^ Spiegel online: Becker drama: Sperma on the rocks. January 20, 2001.
  16. ↑ stern.de: Three women in Zimbabwe in court for stealing seeds. from October 15, 2011 ( Memento from October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  17. ^ Spiegel online: Turkey: Bizarre legal battle over alleged seed theft. 27 October 2010.
  18. ↑ NBC News: Sperm: The 'gift' that keeps on giving. From February 24, 2005.
  19. ↑ OpenJur: Az. XII ZR 34/99. BGH judgment of February 21, 2001.
  20. ↑ Stephan Lorenz : Willing to be legally bound and immorality when agreeing to take contraceptives, (no) liability for deception about taking (“pill case”). IX ZR 200/85 , BGH judgment of April 17, 1986.
  21. ↑ Jura forum: "Samenraub" in Kinderwunschzentrum none was. 5 February 2013.
  22. ↑ Justice portal North Rhine-Westphalia: Higher Regional Court of Hamm ruled in the so-called "semen robbery process" ( memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Judgment of the 22nd civil senate of the OLG Hamm dated February 4, 2013 (I-22 U 108-12). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / justiz.nrw.de
  23. ↑ Gerhild Fuchs: Between the constricting reality of life and the flying fantasy. In: Irmgard Scharold (Ed.): Scrittura femminile. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 2002, ISBN 3823358790 , pp. 69-86.
  24. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine: Ulrike Draesner. A special refrigerator for feelings. March 23, 2004.
  25. ↑ Die Welt: Semen robbery in the left-liberal lesbian milieu. 20 September 2013.