Thought of the day: it’s no coincidence that objectification is such a big kink when we consider what capitalism does to people. A lot of people kink not just on being depersonified, objectified, but specifically on being commodified.
Why? Because products are wanted.
And under capitalism we do not, generally, feel wanted. Mass unemployment and starvation wages show us that our labour is interchangable and close to worthless in the eyes of capitalism. ‘Professionalism’ means ‘leave everything you are at home’ and further drives home that who we are as people is not something the people who hire us wants to deal with. Under capitalism, we are depersonified machines who provide labour or are a waste of space and oxigen when we don’t work.
But the product, the product is glorified. The product is put on a pedestal. There is a whole billion dollar industry build around the glorification of the product. And being a product hardly feels like a step backwards in agency and humanity when we compare it to being a cog in the machine. Is it strange that we start having fantasies about being the object of desire?
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I need more analysis on capitalism and the shaping of sexual desire, especially when it comes to desires for power, powerlessness, humiliation, where the role of capitalism seems extra relevant.
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