Drawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self must be split from the body to make it possible to sell your body without selling yourself. The body becomes sex. Sex becomes a service. The story of the sex worker says: the Split Self is not only possible, it is the ideal.

Contents Preface PART I Prostitution Chapter One: The Story of the Sex Worker or How Prostitution Became the World’s Most Modern Profession The ‘Sex Worker’ and the Feminist Sexual Orientation The Victim and the Subject A Slippery Slope: From the Independent Escort … … to Human Trafficking … … and Children The Invulnerable Person The Narrator The Cult of the Whore The World’s Oldest Profession: Regulation The Drainage Model Chapter Two: An Industry is Born–1970 to present The 1970s: The Sex Industry Expands—and Gets Into Trouble The 1980s: Holland Takes Up the Thread The 1990s: HIV/AIDS—Money Comes Through The New Millennium: ‘Unions for Sex Workers’ The International Union of Sex Workers—Pimps Les Putes/STRASS—The Men The International Committee of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe —The Researchers Ámbit Dóna—The Social Workers The Industry False Façades Rhetoric from the Left—Money from the Right Power Transformed—The Legacy of 1968 Chapter Three: The Self and the Commodity in the Sex Industry “My body is not my Self” “Sex is not the body” Reification—When Sexuality becomes a Commodity The Struggle for the Woman The Buyer’s Dilemma The Postmodern Story: A False Dialectic The Way Out PART II Surrogate Motherhood Chapter Four: The Reality of Surrogacy Background The Buyers and the Bearers of the Bought Chapter Five: The Story of the Happy Breeder Happy Families A ‘Revolutionary Act’ The ‘Feminist’ Arguments Prostitution Child Trafficking Sold with Fatal Relativism Turning the Law of Demand and Supply into a Human Right On the Term ‘Surrogate Mother’ The Capitalist Creation Myth ‘For a Friend’s Sake’ – About Altruistic Surrogacy Chapter Six: Inside the Surrogacy Industry Uterus Pimps – About the Agencies The Most Surrogacy-Friendly Courts in the World “They are sad for a few weeks, but it passes quickly” The Ultimate Reification The Virgin Mary in the Marketplace Women who Change their Minds: “I am not a surrogate; I am a mother” Bibliography Acknowledgements Index