| were utilizing artificial insemination techniques as far back as the middle ages. Of course, as was common back then, the nobles wanted to make sure that their donated sperm got preferential treatment, spread far and wide. To ensure this, the facilitators of the labs would store the sperm in color-coded glass tubes. The tubes for the nobles would be tinted purple, and the tubes for the common people were tinted a sort of light yellowish-brown.
Problems started arising when the royalty realized their kingdoms were in danger due to a lack of genetic diversity. Some of the kings then decreed that the ONLY sperm that could be used were the ones from the common people. In other words, in order to guarantee insemination, a donor would have to get his sperm into the fallow peon tubes.
True story! Honest! |
