‘Baby making’ advert shocks web users

An advert offering women the chance to get pregnant with no strings attached was yesterday pulled off shopping and auctioning website MaltaPark after it went viral on social media networks.

The seller offered €50 sessions of ­“professional baby making” to women who wish to become mothers without a relationship.

The advert read: “Are you a woman who wants to have a baby but does not want a relationship? We offer a discreet professional baby making service with no strings attached! Call us now!”

When contacted, a young man asked for the caller’s details to set up an appointment.

Asked whether this was a sperm bank, the blatant answer was, “No, it’s sex”.

The same mobile number also appears on a vehicle website, with a Żejtun postal address attached.

By the time the notice was taken down, it had gone viral.

Some online commentators laughed the advert off, insisting it was a joke, while others, visibly scandalised, questioned Malta’s status quo.

Some even questioned whether this could in fact have been a major international criminal network pushing human trafficking.

However, the concept of “professional baby making” is not a new one. A Dutchman who remained a virgin until he was 34 has fathered 82 children in just nine years and has some 10 others on the way.

Ed Houben, 42, sleeps with women to turn their dream of becoming mothers into reality... for free.

He started off donating sperm to local clinics but when he discovered that there was a market for “baby- making” the natural way, he got in touch with prospective mothers online.