Creepy $250 'semen stealing' kits are being advertised on X with taglines including 'make him a dad without his permission'

Distributors of an at-home artificial insemination kit have adopted a scandalous sales tactic: paying to promote 'semen stealing' video ads on Elon Musk's X. 

Texas-based company 'Make a Mom' has flooded the site with posts of candid first-person videos showing people fishing used condoms out of waste baskets with captions like, 'Making him a dad without his permission.'

The insemination kit product, which on paper is intended to help aspiring parents struggling to conceive, has hinged its ads on a shocking legal fact - 'semen stealing' is technically not illegal in the US. 

For prices ranging from $249.99 to $98.99 USD, 'Make a Mom' sells syringe-like intracervical insemination devices, semen container cups, and fertility supplements, but some customers online claim they never received what they paid for.

When confronted about the firm's paid ads on X, the company's apparent CEO said 'Make a Mom' values 'consent' and 'moral integrity.' 

The firm's misunderstood marketing on social media, he said, would be reviewed. 

An unapproved maker of at-home artificial insemination kits began paying for ads on Elon Musk's X platform late last year, trolling users with a shocking fact: 'semen stealing' is not illegal in the US. The firm, 'Make a Mom,' has not responded to questions from DailyMail.com

Make a Mom has posted cringe-inducing posts and '@'-replies depicting seemingly candid first-person videos of people fishing used condoms out of waste baskets with captions like 'Making him a dad without his permission ['yum' emoji]'

Make a Mom, whose staff is anonymous, left all questions posed by DailyMail.com unanswered over both the ads and online testimonials calling their product a 'scam.' 

The lewd, 'outrage bait' posts — which were promoted and elevated across X user's feeds via the site's paid advertising program — join a host of dubious, inflammatory and dangerous ads that have flooded the platform as Musk's policies and own posting behavior have persisted in chasing away large corporate ad dollars.

Last November, Musk told major corporate advertisers 'go f*** yourselves' during an explosive rant on-stage at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, after Walmart, Apple and Disney all pledged to remove their advertising.

From crypto scams, to AI-powered apps that offer to 'undress' women in photos, X users' feeds have been overrun with paid content that would have been flagged and deleted by moderators during the blogger's previous incarnation as Twitter.

There are concerns that creepy ads like Make a Mom's 'semen stealing' posts will  continue as X scrambles to make up the $1.5 billion in revenue it lost last year.

Creepy, distracting ads like Make a Mom's 'semen stealing' provocations will likely continue as X scrambles to make up the $1.5 billion in revenue it lost last year. Above one paid Make a Mom (@MakeAmom) post asks, 'Should I tell him it's his kid?'

Outrage and attention over the paid ads (above) ironically also spilled out to rival platforms like Bluesky — a Twitter clone bootstrapped to free users from the chaotic fallout from Musk's erratic tenure as the social site's new owner and top poster

'Woman quietly sneaks condom from trash to perform home insemination while her partner sleeps in the other room. What do you think about this? Is this legal? Will he still owe child support?' one Make a Mom (@MakeAmom) post reads.

'Should I tell him it's his kid?' another asks.

'You don't need his permission to get pregnant,' boasted another ad.

'This is terrible! I hope it is a joke,' one outraged Reddit user, Demimod2000, exclaimed as the X posts went viral, spreading onto other platforms. 

'As someone else said, this is a violation of human rights.'

Outrage and attention over the paid ads ironically also spilled out to rival platforms like Bluesky — a Twitter clone bootstrapped with the hope of freeing users from the chaotic fallout of Musk's erratic tenure as the social site's new owner and top poster.

'Just got an ad on Twitter for a product to help you steal someone's sperm,' the Bluesky user noted, 'so business there is going well.' 

Elon Musk in November 2023 at the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York City (above). The billionaire infamously accused large corporate advertisers of 'blackmail' at the event, adding: 'Go f*** yourself'

The stomach-churning ads were first identified by the journalist-owned tech news co-op 404Media last December.

An analysis of Make A Mom's social media marketing habits found that the company had pivoted from a prior tactic of associating itself with left-libertarian gender politics.

'For months, Make a Mom posted almost exclusively about the benefits of its products for LGBT+ couples,' Cole wrote, 'with hashtags like #lgbtfamily and #lesbianmoms.'

Make a Mom's CEO, who only signed his email 'Anthony,' distanced the company from the provocative posts made to its official X account, when Cole reached out.

'It appears there has been a significant misunderstanding regarding our marketing content and the ethos of our company,' the ostensible CEO wrote 404Media. 

'We take full responsibility for this and are currently reviewing our advertising strategies to ensure they reflect our commitment to ethical practices.' 

'Our intention has always been to empower individuals in their journey towards parenthood, but not at the expense of consent and moral integrity.'

A look at online product reviews for Make a Mom's 'do it yourself' at-home insemination kits, however, tells a different story: one of products that never arrived.

An analysis of Make a Mom's social media marketing habits on X, by 404Media, found that the company had pivoted from a prior tactic of associating 'almost exclusively about the benefits of its products for LGBT+ couples, with hashtags like #lgbtfamily and #lesbianmoms'

Make a Mom's Brownsville, Texas corporate mailing address (nearest locations above and next image), as listed on its Crunchbase page, is shared by an infomercial quality, anti-snoring mouth guard that is also posting unusual promotional content to X (formerly Twitter)

Like the 'Make a Mom' kits, these 'Snorple' anti-snoring mouthpieces have faced harsh product reviews from dissatisfied customers leading to a rating of 'one out of five' stars with the Better Business Bureau (BBB). 'Snorple product is junk,' as one BBB complaint declared. 'Fraud!'

Apparently dissatisfied customers, posting to the site ReviewsBird, accused the company of failing to even ship its product, which is said to include a 'Cryobaby' insemination syringe and a multiples kinds of semen collection kit.

'There's no number to reach his company. It a scam,' one poster, under the name 'Trust issue' wrote on the site.

'You know it's a scam when they don't even sent you an email to track your f***ing item or they use a third-[party]-shipping [service].'

Another reviewer chimed-in, equally outraged: 'I am convinced this business is a scam. I ordered from them weeks ago. [...] I can not get anyone to respond.' 

'I’m going to report it to my bank because this is ridiculous,' the apparently disgruntled customer who posted under the name 'Deja' confessed. 'I was so excited and they have ruined my experience.' 

Government-regulated, at-home insemination kits are a relatively new market, intended as a more cost effective substitute for clinically administered insemination by medical professionals.

The US Food and Drug Administration has only approved one at-home artificial insemination kit thus far — but that company and its 'Mosie Baby Kit' is not affiliated with 'Make a Mom' or its unregulated product. 

Make A Mom's Brownsville, TX corporate mailing address is shared by an infomercial quality, anti-snoring mouth guard also posting to X. The 'Snorple anti-snoring mouthpiece' has faced similarly harsh product reviews leading to a one-star rating from the Better Business Bureau

Make a Mom follows 'manosphere' guru Andrew Tate, who was arrested once again this week for future extradition back to Romania on sex crime charges (above)

Make a Mom's X account has expressed an interest in suing tech giant Google (above)

Make a Mom's Brownsville, Texas corporate mailing address, as listed on its Crunchbase page, is shared by an infomercial quality, anti-snoring mouth guard that is also posting unusual promotional content to X.

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The 'Snorple anti-snoring mouthpiece' has faced similarly harsh product reviews from dissatisfied customers leading to a rating of 'one out of five' stars with the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

'Snorple product is junk,' as one complaint to the BBB declared, 'and they don't reply to emails or chat messages to start return and refund. Fraud!'

Following the 404Media story, the official Make a Mom blog posted an article entitled 'Legal Gray Areas: Post-Coital Condom Retrieval To Get Pregnant.'

Structured as an explainer, but containing no specific cited information, the piece concluded with the need for more 'legal and ethical discussion.'

The company's posts are nevertheless correct on the curious US laws around 'semen stealing.'

A landmark 2005 case in Illinois Appellate Court ruled in 2005 that discarded semen, be it in a condom or elsewhere, could be construed as 'a gift' that outside parties are legally free to use.

The case was the culmination of a legal battle between a male and female doctor who had engaged in a sexual affair six years prior. The semen had been secretly retained after an act of oral sex, then used to conceive. 

The male doctor described 'feelings of being trapped in a nightmare,' according to coverage by NBC News, and had at one point been compelled by court order to pay approximately $800 a month in child support. 

At present, the official X account for Make a Mom has continued to experiment with highly unusual marketing, courting controversy online.

The account follows the X account of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate, for example, and has told Dilbert cartoonist and conservative commentator Scott Adams that it wished to join him in suing tech giant Google.