A woman
has posted an offer on a French website to breast-feed babies of homosexual
male couples for 100 euros ($130) a day, stirring up media interest just weeks
after a divisive same-sex marriage law was passed.
The post,
which the website said it verified as genuine and legal, reads: "I am a
young mother in perfect health, a trained nurse of 29, and I am renting my
breasts to milk-feed infants."
The
offer, addressed to male homosexual couples who can marry legally
in France
since May, promises up to 10 breast-feeds a day. The woman is mobile and based
near Paris, it says.
Alexandre
Woog, chief executive of the e-loue website where the offer appeared, said its
staff had contacted the person and had no doubt about her identity and the
seriousness of the proposal, nor the legality of the service proposed.
"Our
legal advisers are sure of this. It's illegal in France to sell maternal milk
but this is a person proposing a service, not selling the milk in flasks,"
Woog told Reuters.
While
France has just joined more than a dozen countries to legalize marriage and
adoption of children by same-sex couples, it does not permit surrogacy or
assisted reproduction for gay and lesbian couples.
"I've
received more than a dozen requests" she says.
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