[lbo-talk] Re: alt-porn & explicit content

[Etienne]

On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 07:54 -0700, Leigh Meyers wrote:
> > Leigh writes:
>  
> >> How much do you pay for your ... "toys"?
>  
> > As little as possible, but I always end up
> > spending more since I usually get mine
> > individually crafted.  They last longer and are
> > more, shall we say, effective.
> > 
> > How much do you pay for yours -- like books,
> > your computer, your car, your tv, etc.

[snip]


> I'm acutely aware of the foibles of the computer industry
> but there's no way around the issue(yet), however, we 
> *can* control our sex drives in relation to causing damage 
> to society... "keeping it in our pants" is do-able, at least
> once we get beyond.... 19 years old?

Do you advocate not eating until food isn't commodified, too? I don't
see how it can be a sensible objection to something simply that it is
made into a commodity by capitalism -- that's the whole _point_ of
capitalism, after all.

Is the objection that sex is something which it is especially bad to
commodify? If so, why?

I can well imagine that sex workers in general face worse work
conditions than most other people. But is that because they work in the
_sex_ industry, or in an industry that is often criminalised and which
employs many poor women?

-- 

     "The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life 

      ascetic; the reverse would be better"

                                       -- Adorno
Tim                                  http://huh.34sp.com/