Building trust in a suspicious network: findings from a one-year digital ethnography of five online sperm donation platforms

Human Fertility · Published 2026-07-25 · DOI 10.1080/14647273.2026.2707214

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Lauren Smith, Aleks Krotoski, David Carless, Lucy Eldred, Lucy Frith, Georgina Jones, Allan Anthony Pacey, Tanya Palmer, Francesca Taylor-Phillips, Rhys Turner-Moore

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2026

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Smith, L., Krotoski, A., Carless, D., et al. (2026). Building trust in a suspicious network: findings from a one-year digital ethnography of five online sperm donation platforms. Human Fertility. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647273.2026.2707214

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