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Vi's avatar

Hi, I loved this, and I also love how you described how modern neoliberal feminism tries to make things like sex work empowering. I am an SW, out of economic survival, tbh, and I don't glamorize it, but I would rather use my erotic capital to my benefit that way than continue trying to use it through the mundane act of modern dating you described perfectly here. Obviously, in an ideal world, things like social/erotic capital wouldn't exist.

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Kate Bugos's avatar

Thank you for sharing this! I think erotic capital is such a useful lens for analysing the social and economic role of sex work and I hope that the framework could be used to move away from the extreme moral binary we see around sex work as inherently good or evil. It’s a binary that doesn’t help anyone, least of all sex workers (as I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you!)

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Rebecca Thimmesch's avatar

babe wake up Rayafication just dropped

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Kate Bugos's avatar

just wait until they hear the podcast!

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Kier Adrian Gray's avatar

Nothing like a Bourdieu jump scare! Loved this piece. I hope you spill coffee on someone who’s entering the café as you’re exiting, and the two of you fall madly in love ;)

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