[lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn

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"Recent work in queer theory under the influence of Leo Bersani’s definition of sex as anticommunitarian, 
self-shattering and anti-identitarian produces a counter-intuitive but crucial shift 
in thinking away from projects of redemption, reconstruction, restoration and reclamation and 
towards what can only be called an anti-social, negative and anti-relational theory of sexuality 
(Bersani, 1986; Bersani, 1996). I call this shift “counter-intuitive” because it upends our 
understanding of the interconnectedness of intimacy, romance and sexual contact and replaces it 
with a harsh but radically realistic recognition of both the selfishness of sex and its destructive 
power." 

http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/5/2/0805.2a08_halberstam.pdf 
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But this is absurd. In my experience, great sex, whether hetero or homo, always turns the individual outward, helps us see the world anew and motivates us to spread the joy. Hardly anti-social, anti-relational.....blah, blah.

See Wilhelm Reich.

J.