"...one of the many crimes of capitalism’s terraformers – besides incubating coronaviruses by destroying biodiversity – is their theft of untold proletarian sex hours via the imposition of work, & the concomitant disappearance from history of gigawatts of cumulative erotic bliss. https://twitter.com/SageAnastasi/status/1325720459371900929

"The denial of pleasure to populations is a grave historic harm, and the denial by some leftists of the centrality of pleasure to liberation struggles is a correspondingly serious error."

Omg I love this so much and am going to have to read every work cited in it!

"Sexual freedom used to be a central problem of anticapitalist thought & practice. As the feminist scholar Carole Vance put it in the preface to the infamous 1982 pro-sex Pleasure and Danger anthology:

"...for women (and, I’d add, queers) ‘to experience autonomous desire and act in ways that give them sexual pleasure in a society that would nurture and protect their delights is our culture’s worst nightmare and feminism’s best fantasy.’"

"In a similar vein, in Towards a Gay Communism, Mario Mieli argued that the liberation of sexuality would change the way that all people love one another, the way all people inhabit their bodies, such that the categories of heterosexual and homosexual become odd and meaningless."

More good stuff, and relevant to what I was just threading about:

"The repudiation of ‘sleeping with the enemy’ enacted by some feminists in the 1970s was, & remains, widely & rightly derided. Rarely, however, do contemporary feminists acknowledge that...

"...a lot of sex is experienced as making a gift of oneself to one’s oppressor, despite how nice & love-worthy the guy in question is or isn’t. Rarely do we talk about ‘political lesbianism’ as a poor strategy...

"... founded on a factual albeit ‘dramatic’ assessment of heterosex under patriarchy (as perilous for women’s spiritual health)."

"Even more rarely do we grasp that the opposite position. the position of Vance & women’s movement’s sexual liberationists, shared that same assessment … only, [to them,] the utopian horizon of post-gender pleasure made the perils of having sex in the present worth confronting."

" Thus there are, as Lauren Berlant commented at the 2019 Duke Feminist Theory Workshop, ‘many new sex-negative feminists’ cropping up in our present moment; people who, she suggests, are ‘incompetent about even their own desire’."

I can sure think of a few!

"Whether we are feminist or anti-feminist, most of us are so exhausted, coerced and alienated by capitalism’s work / enjoyment culture that we don’t know how to have really good sex – be it with men or plants or ourselves or the topside of a washing machine."

"[A] basic condition ... for the collective turn-on would be communal luxury, [or] the manifestation of the principle ‘everything for everyone’: prison abolition, universal leisure, free abortion on demand, no borders, liberation from the wage relation, ecological abundance."