> But disagree with what? Surely they wouldn't disagree with the fact that > "there are women in such desperate poverty that they are forced to sell > their body to survive"?
Shane Mage wrote: > Everyone with any sense would disagree that performance of an erotic service > for pay amounts to selling one's body (rather than one's labor power). < No, even though I flatter myself and think of myself as having sense, I'd say that no-one "sells his or her body" (except someone who volunteers to be slave). Rather, what prostitutes do is _lease_ their bodies to the "johns" (with restrictions on their use, just as in any rental agreement). It's just like the normal act of selling one's labor-power, which involves temporary submission to the authority of the employer (within socially-defined limits), except I'd guess that prostitutes are under more pressure from the reserve army of labor than most workers are. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
