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[218] Pikk: Procreation So, am I just a commodity or something that has use value to women?
Is sex a mere exchange between five and more senses? Must we all “change
hands”? A commodity is always ready to exchange “both soul and body”.
For myself, my sexual being does not have a direct use-value without
another “commodity”. The only way I can bring value to my sexuality is
to bring value to my sexuality is to bring use values to others as a
bearer of exchange value and as a means of exchange. In a sense, Marx
implies that my sexuality is of no use (or value) to myself until I
exchange it (have sex) for the sexuality of someone else's (which have no
value to to them until they exchange it with me), what I desire is to be
“exchanged”. The act of the exchange puts the two in relation with each
other as values. Commodities must be realized as values before they can
be realized as use-values. Although I first did not see the sexual
undertone to chapter two, professor Ehrbar kindly pointed it out to me.
As I was controversial last week, I found this topic somewhat
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