"Clinical Sexologist"'s Surrogacy Auction Yanked By eBay

What grew from a particular sexual pleasure for clinical sexologist (as she describes herself) and author Sandra Margot and her husband has become a bone of contention between herself and online auction kings eBay: Margot's attempt to auction herself off as a surrogate mother was yanked twice by eBay. And Margot says if eBay doesn't point out exactly which rule she violated, she is ready to take them to court.

Margot is still accepting surrogacy bids via e-mail while awaiting answers from eBay to a pair of letters she fired off to the online auction giant over the auction stoppages.

"They claim that the auction content was "inappropriate" for eBay," Margot says on her site. "Yet, I thoroughly read over their "Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing" items page, and couldn't find one single rule that I'd violated! Surrogacy is 100% legal in my state (California), and it is legal to enter into a contract with a surrogate in all 50 states." In four states, however, including New York and Utah, Margot told AVN Online, surrogate births are not allowed.

"They are interfering with fair economic advantage, and I plan on suing them for such," she said at midday June 24. "I'm just looking for the right attorney. I've been going back and forth all morning with my agent, because we just can't find anything on eBay showing I even remotely violated their policies."

And it all began, Margot said, when she discovered her husband became particularly aroused sexually by a pregnant woman. The couple themselves have three children - two together and one from a previous relationship - and did not want to have more of their own.

"He just loves pregnant women," Margot said, "he just finds them so sexy. When he sees a pregnant woman, he tells me, 'oh, honey, that just gives me an instant boner,' and how he really wishes he could see me pregnant again. When we had sex when I was pregnant, it was so unreal, the orgasms were so unreal."

From there, however, the surrogacy option didn't connect, Margot said, until she watched a television news report on infertility and the options couples pursue trying to conceive when they are beset with infertility.

"With all the expense, all the anxiety, I shook my head and said isn't that just ironic, here I am, Fertile Myrtle, all my children are exceptional, and I can do it at the drop of a hat, and I love to have pregnant sex with my husband. And then a light bulb went off in my head. I did some research. And I got the idea to be a surrogate to entertain my husband for nine months, and I could have great sex and get paid well and do something beautiful for a couple who can't have children."

Margot first posted the surrogacy auction on eBay June 19, but eBay took it down June 21. She restored the auction on June 23 under a different username, included the legalities of the surrogacy option, and eBay removed the auction again.

"I fired off two letters to their legal department," Margot said. "I told them unless you can show me exactly where I'm violating the rules, I expect you to immediately reinstate my auction or I'm going to be suing you."

The "Prohibited and Restricted Items" rule as listed on eBay does not specifically mention surrogate pregnancy. "Humans, the human body, or any human body parts may not be listed on eBay," the listing says. "Examples of prohibited items include, but are not limited to: organs, bone, blood, waste, sperm, and eggs."

eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove was unavailable for comment when contacted by AVN Online before this story went to press.