Editing Auction (section)

===Human commodity auctions===
{{Further|Commodification}}
[[File:A Slave Auction.jpg|thumb|A slave auction]]
As already mentioned in the history section, auctions have been used to trade [[Commodification|commodified]] people from the very first. Auctions have been used in [[slave market]]s throughout history until modern times [[Slavery in Libya#21st century|in the post-Gaddafi era Libya]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=What You Need to Know About the Libyan Slave Trade |url=https://time.com/5042560/libya-slave-trade/ |magazine=Time |access-date=26 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Vonberg |first1=Judith |title=UK lawmakers debate Libya slave auction footage |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/18/europe/libya-slave-auctions-uk-debate-intl/index.html |access-date=26 January 2020 |agency=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gladstone |first1=Rick |title=U.N. Chief 'Horrified' by Report of Libya Slave Auction |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/world/middleeast/libya-slave-auction-un.html |access-date=26 January 2020 |agency=The New York Times |date=20 November 2017}}</ref> The word for slave auction in the [[Atlantic slave trade]] was [[Scramble (slave auction)|scramble]]. A [[child auction]] is a Swedish and Finnish historical practice of selling children into slavery-like conditions by authorities using a descending English auction.<ref name=lundberg>{{cite journal |last=Lundberg  |first=Sofia|date= 2000 |title=Child Auctions in Nineteenth Century Sweden: An Analysis of Price Differences |jstor=146326|journal= The Journal of Human Resources |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=279–298 |doi=10.2307/146326 }}</ref> [[Fattigauktion]] is a similar Swedish practice involving poor people being auctioned to church organizations.<ref>{{cite thesis |degree=Master |last1=Johansson |first1=Mariette |title=Fattigvården i Kristdala socken 1881-1890: en studie av en småländsk landsbygdssocken |date=Spring 2009 |publisher=Högskolan på Gotland |language=sv |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A299611&dswid=-160 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> [[Wife selling|Trade of wives by auctions]] was also a common practice throughout history. For instance, in the old [[Wife selling (English custom)|English custom of wife selling]], a wife was divorced by selling her in a public auction for the highest bid.<ref>{{citation |title=The Contrast, by the Author of "Yes and No" |journal=[[The Gentleman's Magazine]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDwDw0HkYPkC |volume=102 |page=347 |date=April 1832|last1=Cave |first1=Edward |last2=Nichols |first2=John }}</ref> [[ISIS]] conducted slave auctions to sell up to 7,000 [[Yazidi]] women as reported in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=ISIS Terror: Yazidi Woman Recalls Horrors of Slave Auction |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/isis-terror-yazidi-woman-recalls-horrors-slave-auction-n305856 |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='I was sold seven times': Yazidi women welcomed back into the faith |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jul/01/i-was-sold-seven-times-yazidi-women-welcomed-back-into-the-faith |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=1 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref>

A [[virginity auction]] is the voluntary practice of individuals seeking to sell their own [[virginity]] to the highest bid.<ref name="howmuch">Gordon, Claire (9 February 2010). [http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2010/02/09/what_factors_determine_the_price_of_a_womans_virginity.html How Much Is Virginity Worth], ''[[Slate (magazine)]]''</ref> [[Cricket]] players are routinely put up for auction, whereby cricket teams can bid for their services.<ref>{{cite news |title=IPL Auction 2020, IPL Auction Players List, Auction Date, Results |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/ipl-auction-2019-complete-list-of-players/ |access-date=26 September 2020 |work=Hindustan Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Sportstar |first1=Team |title=IPL 2020: Full list of players in auction pool on December 19 |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/ipl/ipl-news/ipl-2020-full-list-of-332-players-in-the-auction-pool/article30284628.ece |access-date=26 September 2020 |work=Sportstar |language=en}}</ref> [[Indian Premier League]] (IPL) started annual public auctioning of cricket players in 2008 as an entertainment for mass consumption.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reducing Cricketers into Cattle: The IPL Destroys the Spirit of Sports – The New Leam |url=https://www.thenewleam.com/2018/12/reducing-cricketers-into-cattle-the-ipl-destroys-the-spirit-of-sports/ |access-date=5 September 2020 |work=thenewleam.com/}}</ref> Also, [[Bangladesh Premier League]] conducts cricket [[player auction]]s, starting in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |title=Afridi and Gayle fetch highest BPL prices {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/22342534/bangladesh-premier-league-2012-shahid-afridi,-chris-gayle-fetch-highest-bpl-prices |access-date=5 September 2020 |work=espncricinfo.com |language=en}}</ref>