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This article examines the psychic progression of an infertile patient who requests the opportunity to choose her oocyte donor herself, online, as can be done in many countries outside France. The hypothesis adopted involves interpreting her approach as a counter-investment of the passive position of reception implied by an oocyte donation in favour of a logic of control, commodification and devaluation of the donor herself. An underlying fantasy seems to emerge from the study of a clinical case: “spitting on the hand that gives me”. Through an overview of oocyte donation in the United States, the author also examines the limits of the rhetoric of donation and altruism in gamete donation. His single-case methodology is based on a complementary approach that draws on sociological and economic data.