Lens blog at the New York Times is consistently fantastic. This week features the work of an Italian photographer who took some unflattering pictures of redheads. She wants to document  redheads before they disappear.

The author of the blog, Matt McCann, explains that redheads are exotic, but aren’t exactly desirable. The world largest sperm bank won’t take any more sperm from redheads. Nobody wants a redheaded kid. Fools!  There’s been a shift in the sperm bank customer, and the new customer wants brunettes and blonds.

On the phone from her home in Udine last week, she described how the demand for artificial insemination had changed since the 1990s, when it was dominated by heterosexual couples. Now, buyers are increasingly single women, who, Ms. Rosso said, are looking for sperm that would yield the traits of a “dream mate.” These days, everyone wants to rear a George Clooney or Adrien Brody.

Well, we here at Apt. 11D are doing our part in keeping the redhead gene in circulation.