James Michael Craven wrote:
>Just spend some time at the Health Clinic at the Blackfeet
>Reservation at Browning. There you will see 12 and 13 and 14 year old
>boys and girls with AIDS and other diseases just waiting to die.
>Under bourgoeis theory, the "exchanges" of these "sex workers" with
>their "clients" (who were not buying "sex", they were buying
>domination with sex as the instrument) were "free" and "mutually"
>beneficial--otherwise they presumably would not have taken place.
>These children were "free" not to sell themselves, yet they "chose"
>to. At the Clinic you will also find Indian women whose husbands used
>prostitutes and brought diseases home; their husbands were "free" not
>to make the exhanges, but unfortunately due to "asymmetric
>information" these women were unfortunately not "free" to choose not
>to be infected.
The crime here isn't sex, but a couple of centuries of genocide and planned
degradation. Neither Bright, Hartley, nor anyone on PEN-L (well there may
be a few exceptions lurking here & there) believes in bourgeois concepts of
free exchange. Why, in the formulation "domination with sex as the
instrument" do you turn most of your fire towards the sex and not the
domination?
Doug
