Re: <nettime> Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale

[Margaret Morse <memorse@comcast.net>]

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




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