“Our understanding of sex must then dispose of all naturalized notions of sex – sex as sacred rite, sex as communion, sex as fundamental aspect of life, and sex as the necessary means by which bodies are discovered and explored. First and foremost, sex is work. Not merely the obvious work of making babies (though this is often key in certain contexts), but a vast array of functions within the labor of maintaining a body of workers. Nonprocreative sex is allowed and fostered not because of society’s moving any closer towards freedom, but because the reproductive labor demanded by modern capital is not merely that of population growth, but of the creation of the self, the individual, and consequently the productive, positive identity.
In this, the narrative of modern virginity loss becomes elucidated; it is not an archaic sale into the slavery of reproductive labor, but a pluralistic coming into one’s self repeated infinitely in each act of sex. This is for some, a moment in which one takes refuge in the body of the other, one constructed as a warm, giving place onto which some primal impotence may be resolved. For others, it is a field by which one can become understood, can articulate themself in terms alien and ever present: beauty, one’s physicality, one’s availability (called “desire”) for sex. One may even, due to the benevolence of society’s progress, fulfill to some degree both roles, in what is called “empowered” and “mutual.”
Against Sex Positivity: A First Draft Of A Likely Shitstorm
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