Abstract
In this chapter we explore the ways in which clinic websites advertising commercial surrogacy services to gay men potentially shape, as well as are shaped by, the desires of gay men not only to become parents but also to conceive genetically related offspring. The websites we examine primarily target reproductive travellers, namely gay men who are unable to access surrogacy services in their own countries due to legislative restrictions. These are men who on the one hand maybe viewed as ‘reproductive exiles’ (In horn and Patrizio, 2012; Riggs,2015a) in that they must leave their country of residency in order to access fertility services, yet on the other hand may be viewed as what Kroløkke and Pant (2012) refer to as ‘repropreneurs’, a term they coin to describe the role of neoliberalism in the decision-making of those who are depicted as active agents in their reproductivity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Babies for sale |
| Subtitle of host publication | Transnational surrogacy, human rights, and the politics of reproduction |
| Editors | Miranda Davies |
| Place of Publication | London, UK |
| Publisher | Zed Books |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 33-46 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78360-703-7 , 978-1-78360-704-4, 978-1-78360-705-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78360-702-0, 978-1-78360-701-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- surrogacy services
- advertising commercial
- gay men
- parents
- fertility services