ABSTRACT
In Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin has placed surrogate motherhood in the center of her elegant model of the systematic exploitation of women. In it, she describes the brothel model and the farming model. Simply stated, in the brothel model women are used efficiently and specifically for sex by groups of men. The surrogate industry provides a frightening synthesis of both which enables women to sell their wombs within the terms of the brothel model. There is a need for feminists to pay attention to the surrogate industry and to structure debate in feminist terms. There have, of course, been outspoken critics of the surrogate companies, but they have primarily questioned the industry’s effect on traditional business dealings and family structure. The language and process encountered in experience within a surrogate company is consistent with the reproductive prostitution model described by Dworkin.
