Many college graduates leave campus deeply in debt. Not “Michael,” a Navy ROTC midshipman at a Southern university who paid most of his tuition bills by stripping at a nightclub’s weekly “ladies’ night.” In Texas, a community-college student got $400 for giving up a wisdom tooth in a painkiller test. (It was “pretty horrific” and “a pretty good deal,” she said.) Students’ increasing involvement in the sale of bodily goods or services prompted scholars to take a renewed look at how forms of “body commodification,” as it’s called, are socially and morally categorized.
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