The egalitarian, global commodification of s*xuality

John says he is “excited about the journey”. My exciting journey of being sold in a Nevada cattleyard. By John. While John says he doesn’t mind if he is purchased by a male or a female, Alex seems to be offering himself to a woman flesh buyer.

Once again, this is an attempt to show how egalitarian the global commodification of sexuality has become.

But the fact remains: purchasing prostitutes remains fundamentally a male preserve, which is why we don’t see huge line-ups of women wanting to buy the bodies of boys and men. When women pay men for sex, it doesn’t have the same social effect because there is no history of women enslaving men; the porn industry is still primarily driven by men’s sexual demands. And there’s no social construction of men as sluts who enjoy their own degradation.

The rise of male “escort” services reflects a devaluation of sex because of the primacy of exchange and commodification of another person.

All we’re seeing with this new men-for-sale business is the democratisation of objectification. Buying and selling male or female bodies for sex will always be reducing them to a means to an end; a denial of their full humanity.