A French woman offered to breastfeed babies of gay parents for 100 Euros ($130) per day after same-sex marriage was legalized in the country.
The woman posted the offer on a French website saying that she was willing to "rent" herself for breastfeeding. "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 read. The website recognized the post as genuine and legal.
The advert, addressed to gay male couples, said the babies would get at least 10 breastfeeds every day. The woman is based near Paris, the post said.
The chief executive of the website said that they contacted the person and did not have any doubt against the person's identity and the proposal's seriousness. They also found the offer legal.
"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," chief executive Alexandre Woog said.
Although the French law agreed to legalize marriage and adoption of children by same-sex couples, it did not allow surrogacy or assisted reproduction for gay and lesbian couples.
"I've received more than a dozen requests, but only half of them were serious. The rest were from perverts," the poster of the offer said in an exchange with Reuters.
According to Woog, this is not for the first time someone has offered anything such weird. Once a person offered to rent two goats as lawn-cutters. He also said that such things should not be surprising because the motto of the website is, "With e-loue, everything is up for rent."
