Cause like you get paid for fucking, childcare, and domestic work. It’s just a non stigmatized form of sex work. So like these dudes wives are really sex workers in a sense too, so like if we can arrange solidarity between sex workers against dudes that’d be really cool
I mean yeah traditional housewife? You’re basically a full time full service worker with one client, but society doesn’t think of you as a whore so you try to distance yourself from sex workers. Being a sex worker isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a thing.
But isn’t there a difference in perceived obligation? I.e.: You aren’t expect societally to transact sex directly for money as a housewife. Meaning you maybe having your expenses covered by your partner, but you still don’t necessarily have to fuck them.
Realistically in these situations if they’re above a certain income level and you want to keep your position you have to fuck them or they will leave you without means of support, like with SBs it’s also less direct but it’s still sex work
I can’t really disagree with that, since there is a sort of informal indirect time-for-money exchange and there is some sort of expectation of sex, among other things. But the distinction is subjective and I don’t personally see it that way. A side note: do you think you might say that any sort of courtship that involves money might be considered sex work? Like a guy (or whoever) buy gifts or paying for the meals of someone they are courting?
Nah, that’s not work because it’s not about providing the means of life. Being a homemaker is because that is 100% your job.
Well, then that brings up the question of does it have to be full time work to be work.
(Thanks for parsing all this shit out with me. I appreciate the discussion)
Like I said commodities received must have easily accessible exchange value. I can’t trade the dinner out for another commodity, I cannot sell the teddy bear holding a heart for even a fraction of its original cost, I cannot exchange jewelry received as gifts, also gifts are picked by the giver, and one cannot ask for cash value instead
This is a vet insightful observation.
It’s all thanks to Marx. A wage has to be exchangeable for other commodities
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