Gestational surrogacy – carrying someone else’s baby (or babies) to term and giving birth to them – is perhaps one of the most intimate acts a human being can perform for others. However, the proliferation of commercial surrogacy has drawn concern and criticism, with many scholars arguing that it both creates and exacerbates global social and economic inequalities. Commercial surrogacy thus raises both the possibility of global intimate connection and the specter of reproductive exploitation. I therefore explore the various, shifting, and often discordant desires for intimate connection between the intending parent(s), the surrogate mother, and the resulting child(ren) in commercial surrogacy. I then examine how those intimacies intersect with commercial surrogacy’s socioeconomic inequalities. Weighing commercial surrogacy’s driving desires and intimate practices against its commercialization, I end with a reconsideration of the procreative desires and intimate practices that spur current international commercial surrogacy (ICS), urging an emphasis on reproductive justice.

代孕-抱着别人的孩子或生下孩子-也许是人类可以为他人做的最亲密的行为之一。但是，商业代孕的泛滥引起了关注和批评，许多学者认为，这既造成并加剧了全球社会和经济不平等。商业代孕因此既增加了全球亲密联系的可能性，也增加了生殖剥削的幽灵。因此，我探讨了在商业代孕中，有意父母，代孕母亲和由此产生的孩子之间的各种，不断变化且经常不一致的愿望。然后，我研究了这些亲密关系如何与代孕的社会经济不平等相交。