Re: [Pen-l] supply & demand at work

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Everyone with any sense would disagree that performance of an erotic service
> for pay amounts to selling one's body (rather than one's labor power).
> But who would disagree with that there are women--and men, and children--who
> are forced to sell their labor power to owners of intensely polluting
> factories (under conditions worse than those in most any brothel) in order
> to survive?  So why the extraspecial outrage when that terrible word "sex"
> is mentioned?


That's because sex *is* special and not just another form of work.
This is so trivially obvious that I am surprised that it is even
necessary to point it out.

Now I am beginning to understand why Michael doesn't like the subject.
-raghu.


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support of Paul."
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