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Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter.

— Laurie Penny

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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.

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)

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

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)

The Bunny brand is a Lacanian play of signs bounding blithely away from any signifiable sexuality.

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)

Moderate liberalism cherishes the idea of “civility” because it allows it to believe in its own goodness and relevance.

Young people growing up with pressure to perform in every aspect of their lives find themselves aping a robotic capitalist eroticism that has little to do with their own legitimate desires.

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011)

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