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Sex work is an economic question, not a moral one: in a world where shame and sexual violence are still hard currency, the normalization of the sex industry is a symptom not of social degeneration, but of the economic exploitation of women on a unprecedented scale.

— Laurie Penny Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)

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What surrounds us is not sex itself but the illusion of sex, and airbrushed vision of enforced fun-fisting sexuality that is as sterile as it is relentless.

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What is at play here is a horror of flesh: a rubberised capitalist repugnance for the meat and intimacy of human sexuality.

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