Vice: What did you draw as a little Dutch boy? A bunch of bongs and doobies?
Merijn Hos: Lots of boats, actually. I wanted to be a captain, but then I went to art school. Do you regret it?
A little bit. I might still do that, though. Sail around and stuff....
My friend's lesbian sister became pregnant a while ago. She found her sperm donor through one of several Dutch websites where women who want kids and guys who will donate sperm contact each other. I visited those websites and found a weird community where single women, lesbian couples, and couples in which the male is infertile can find happiness in the form of a small cup of semen and the pregnancy it leads to. But it is also a place where women will unabashedly ask for tall blond guys with blue eyes and a high level of education...
