Paul McAdory’s new essay, “If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup,” has been published in The Paris Review.
In the piece, McAdory follows the strange and increasingly public world of competitive sperm racing, tracing the spectacle through questions of science, masculinity, performance, self-optimization, and the attention economy. What begins as an investigation into an improbable new sport becomes a sharp and personal meditation on production, anxiety, and the sometimes uneasy relationship between making something and finding an audience.
