Orgasmic power and the capacity for work

 
Preciado 46: "the market isn't an outside power coming to expropriate, repress, or control the sexual instincts of the individual"
 
but 47: "orgasmic force [...] can be converted into merchandise, into an object of economic exchange, into work" (Preciado identifies this as "femininity," with the caveat that "a male body can occupy (and in fact already does occupy) a position of female gender in the market of sex work and, as a result, [can] see its orgasmic power reduced to a capacity for work")
 
Not sure how this isn't the market "expropriating" our sexuality, but...

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #femininity, #economics, #sex work, #sexuality, #work

> created March 29, 2024 at 7:07:59 AM


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