“...much overt sex work, as well as the subtler forms of commodified sexuality for sale, is the result of an economic system that provides little material security for women, and encourages all people to turn everything they have (their labor, their reputations, their emotions, their bodily fluids and ova, and so forth) into a product that can be sold on a market where prices are determined by the caprices of supply and demand.”
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
“When women enjoy their own sources of income, and the state guarantees social security in old age, illness, and disability, women have no economic reason to stay in abusive, unfulfilling, or otherwise unhealthy relationships.”
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
― Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
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― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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