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On Sexuality as Work / Why Sexuality is Work, Silvia Federici, 1975

Compartmentalization is only one aspect of the mutilation of our sexuality. The subordination of our sexuality to the reproduction of labor power has meant that heterosexuality has been imposed on us as the only acceptable sexual behavior. In reality, every genuine communication has a sexual component, for our bodies and emotions are indivisible and we communicate at all levels all the time. Sexual contact with women is forbidden because in bourgeois morality anything that is unproductive is obscene, unnatural, perverted. This has meant the imposition of a schizophrenic condition on us, as early in our lives we must learn to draw a line between the people we can love and the people we just talk to, those to whom we can open our body and those to whom we can only open our 'souls, our friends and our lovers. The result is that we are bodiless souls for our female friends and soulless flesh for our male lovers. And this division separates us not only from other women but from ourselves as well, in the sense of what we do or do not accept in our bodies and feelings - the 'clean' parts that are there for open display, and the 'dirty’, 'secret' parts that can only be disclosed in the conjugal bed, at the point of production.

https://thecommoner.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/05-federici.pdf

Also quoted in Kill the Couple in Your Head

willow·Mar 22, 2025

as an embodied being, you are, of course, in constant sexual relation to all bodies around you

April 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM