The Vikings are coming. As sperm donations in Britain slow to a trickle, Denmark has become the sperm powerhouse of Europe

Henrietta Peterson leans back from the microscope. Most of the time she studies pigs at the University Hospital of Arhus but two days a week she comes here to count male sperm. Pigs and men, then. “You said it,” she says, carefully. “Not me.”

And with this same miraculous, but increasingly common, journey Danish sperm engenders children all over the world.

Fertilitetsklinikken Trianglen, north of Copenhagen, is one of these. In the hallway there is a chandelier of sperm-shaped bulbs; on the walls are hundreds of photographs of blonde blue-eyed babies. IVF treatment in this place of candles, rugs and pine floors will cost about £4,000. There are no waiting lists.

West across the Kattegat to Arhus, and Dr Karsten Peterson shows me the Ciconia Private Hospital, another fertility temple of pine floors, rugs and candles. “This place used to be filled with Siemens,” he says. What? “Siemens, the electronic company, had its offices here.” He has already treated 20 British couples. “It’s all very recent, but many are e-mailing me. You can fly Ryanair from Stansted, and we have deals with hotels: fertility tourists get a discount.”

Read the rest here, quite a well written and funny article I must say: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article649651.ece