Margaret Morse on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:18:18 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale |
Dear Andreas, I might get your point, but I am not sure. Is it that regularizing sex work as a service to society rather than seeing it solely in terms of a master-slave relationship has a limit--pain, physical and mental? One thing that I am sure is painful about sex work for the sex worker is the stigma connected with it. Another thing might be the damage of so many partners--simply physical wear and tear or in exposure to disease and STDs. Your last sentence leaves out the consensual in a way that is over my head. How can one have an exchange, intrinsically and by definition, without consent? your puzzled reader. MM On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:10 AM, IR3ABF wrote: >> economical needs continue to force people to sell their body out of >> despair and not out of consent. > > This expresses imo the issue at stake: the lack of a fundamental >critic regarding the economics involved in 'sex workers', for >defining the 'need' to sell once bodily 'labour' out of despair is >examplary for a eco-system based on unilaterally defined master-slave >relationships # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org