File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 790


Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:20:04 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Sex and payment


Hugh wrote:
>Yoshie wrote:
>
>>As for the compatibility of 'sex' and 'payment,' we all know that 'sex' can
>>be and has been made compatible with payment (through prostitution,
>>marriage, etc.). One might even go so far as to say that sex without
>>payment is a rare thing indeed under capitalism and other forms of
>>class/patriarchal society. I would say that this fact has probably limited
>>our imagination as to what sex and eroticism can be.
>
>The Beatles sang:
>
>	The love you take
>	Is equal to the love
>	You make
>
>Is quid-pro-quo the same as payment?

Not the same but analogy is there in that there is an allusion to the
contractual relation of establishing equivalences between equally alienable
and alienated objects--the love you take and the love you make.

This probably should return us to discussions of the ideology of bourgeois
individualism + forms of individuality under capitalism.

Yoshie




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