Status Updates From Kolboy: Denial, Disgust, an...

Money, for example, organizes social life by quantifying labor— that is by acting as a token or medium through which human labor can be abstracted and exchanged. At the same time it assumes control over people and achieves a life of its own, becoming like a god...

It is precisely their exclusion from the labor market that compels them to sell their bodies. For the most part, however, it is because they are trapped in an economy where the value of their labor is so cheap they choose not to sell it but their bodies instead. The value of their bodies far exceeds the value of their labor power, which is not worth enough to sustain their lives.

"For me at least, these sorties were not entirely fun. As with anything that has to do with sex, there was that tinge of shame in the shadow amplified by the sense of complicity in the exploration of the poor."

I just started reading this again and I think page 74 to 75 was the first time where I genuinely stopped reading because of astonishment. Like literally "WTF did I just read."

I wish this book could have more bits and random crap about the current state of homosexuality TODAY.
I like to see that in parallel with the book's (somewhat outdated passages)
It's a good read though. Very compelling.

Wow, I never thought Pagsanjan, Laguna had "that" history. Although I can't help but reminded of the indie movie "Sagwan."