Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism
Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism
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精液作为礼物，精液作为商品：生殖工作者和利他主义市场
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2001
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D. Tober
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作者：
D. Tober
这篇文章探讨了人们对精液所含成分的认知如何影响其作为一种可销售产品的价值。我探讨了捐献者的利他主义、智力和种族特征是如何在精子银行行业的代表以及购买精液进行授精的女性之间被感知和交易的，并展示了生殖行业和性行业之间的联系如何进一步提高了精液捐赠的商品质量。我认为，对利他主义的强调，是试图重新定义精液作为礼物的商品质量，以赋予它更高的情感和道德价值。
This article examines how perceptions of what semen is thought to contain affect its value as a marketable product. I explore how donor altruism, intelligence and ethnicity traits thought to be transmitted in sperm are perceived and transacted among representatives of the sperm banking industry, as well as among women who purchase semen for insemination and show how the linkages between the reproductive industry and the sex industry further heighten the commodity-quality of semen donation. I argue that the emphasis placed on altruism, is an attempt to redefine the commodity quality of semen as gift, in order to imbue it with higher emotional and moral value.