英文摘要 |
Reproductive consumption is the process of reproductive practice through commercial means. This paper focuses on reproductive consumption in international commercial sperm banks. International commercial sperm banks support female fertility and diverse family-making, and they facilitate cross-border reproductive care and donor sperm networks; nevertheless, they have been subject to various criticisms and valuations. To date, most of the relevant discourse originates in Europe and the United States, and the distribution of research is uneven; moreover, discussion of this topic in Taiwan at both the public and academic levels is limited. Therefore, the objective of this study was to review and analyze the literature to enhance the understanding of international commercial sperm banks and reproductive consumption for further research and practical work. The study adopted secondary research as the primary research method and collected and integrated relevant material from the academic literature, monographs, international news media, international organization databases, and websites of sperm banks and clinics for the period from 2014 to 2021. Extant studies and common debates were categorized under the themes“reproductive consumption in international commercial sperm banks,”“the internet as a medium of reproductive consumption and its management,”“reproductive consumption and family network construction,”and“consumption choices in reproductive practices.”The author argues that the use of reproductive consumption as a framework offers a new space and resource for analyzing international commercial sperm banks, which is conducive to the further investigation of international commercial sperm banks for both research and practice. |