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
I don’t quite see how you can do that in most domestic spouse arrangements. Yes, some housewives and house husbands may get an allowance and gifts that correspond well to, say, sugaring, but plenty are not like that. Plenty just have their living expenses covered and get occasional gifts and maybe money here and there for gas and groceries and whatnot.
Subsistence pay is still pay, like generally they’re given access to some portion of the household budget for food purchased for themselves, clothes purchased for themselves, like it doesn’t need to afford them luxuries to be a job, the fact that they are given gas and grocery money is the point. Marxist analysis in fact generally states that wages will average out over time to exactly the amount of money needed to keep the worker in working condition, and to keep a supply of workers available. Some housewives are more expensive because they are more expensive to keep in laboring condition (so the expenses of maintaining the appearance of a “trophy wife” are part of the cost of keeping her in the condition to do the job required of her by capital, which involves being socially acceptably attractive) other housewives are less expensive to maintain in laboring condition and so are less expensive to maintain
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 