To what degree does capitalism influence out sexual mores? Could it be said that government austerity programs lead to a breakdown in traditional structures, allowing for commercialist views of sex as a disposable commodity to arise?
Just compare the purely hedonistic sexual dynamics of the 80s to the attitudes of the 1960s. While both eras saw a culture that celebrated promiscuity, in the 60s it happened in the name of love, as hippie communes saw sex as not simple hedonism, but a means for procreation and human connection. In the 80s, the emotional value of sex had been thrown to the sideline, as the act was considered by so many Wall Street upstarts and new wave pop divas to be only another luxury to be consumed -- akin to a Coke, even less of a serious investment than the purchase of the latest Michael Jackson cassette.
An example, non-American: while both East and West Germany were known for their comparative sexual immodesty, the government of the GDR believed "free" sexual relations would promote social harmony despite poverty, and increase the falling birthrate. In West Germany, the sex trade (both pornography and prostitution) was massive. Most young men would encounter sex not through love, but through capitalism.
Bumping for interest
>>928380
The Sexual Revolution happened due to the World Wars creating a lose of faith in Traditions and The Wealth that the American People enjoyed during the 1950's
Also because Protestant men are promiscuous morons which eventually influenced their women
>>928380
Not bad O.P., but the commodification of sex goes back to prehistory. Even penguins will trade shiny rocks for sexual favours. I don't think the commodification of sexuality is unique to capitalism, communism, or any other type of social-political-economic order.
Personally I lament the loss of actual human relations through digital media though, the brothel beats pornhub.com any day of the week.
>>928380
It is honestly religion(see Hays Law). Sure, capitalism plays a huge role on sexual morals as long as you have enough of capital, but there was always a cap that people were not willing to go. Around the 70s-80s a new sexual revolution(Rock and Roll Era/ Hippies, most likely from the distrust of authority from the vietnam war) came prevalent and religion started slowly declining as well throughout today.
Capitalism brought cheap, reliable contraceptives and effective treatment of all dangerous STDs. After WW2 there were basically 3 decades in which nothing worse than herpes could come out of sex.
Old morals no longer served a purpose. Morals adapted. AIDS wasn't scary enough to affect the new morals.
>Every philosophy which believes that the problem of existence is touched on, not to say solved, by a political event is a joke- and pseudo-philosophy. Many states have been founded since the world began; that is an old story. How should a political innovation suffice to turn men once and for all into contented inhabitants of the earth? [That people think the answer to existential questions might come from politics shows] that we are experiencing the consequences of the doctrine…that the state is the highest goal of mankind and that a man has no higher duty than to serve the state: in which doctrine I recognize a relapse not into paganism but into stupidity. It may be that a man who sees his highest duty in serving the state really knows no higher duties; but there are men and duties existing beyond this — and one of the duties that seems, at least to me, to be higher than serving the state demands that one destroys stupidity in every form, and therefore in this form too. That is why I am concerned with a species of man whose teleology extends somewhat beyond the welfare of a state…, and with [this kind of man] only in relation to a world which is again fairly independent of the welfare of a state, that of culture.
Capitalism encourages sterile sex because it keeps females atomized and efficient cogs in consumerism.. In the family, women were insulated from capitalism and now they choose to get cucked as wage slaves and taxpayer.
>>929137
The sexual revolution began in the 20s though
Capitalism isn't really a system, it's more of a permissive set of rules. But under those rules it's possible to sell sex for profit, be it prostitution or pornography, or just generally lewd services and products. The limitations to this are not imposed by capitalism but by society or government, or putting it another way: by the social moors or by the law.
You could argue this turns sex into a commodity, but I think that raises the question of what sex is if it isn't a commodity, and I think that's more interesting, cause there's lots of answers to it depending on who you ask.
>>928380
Technological development -> urbanization -> atomization -> weakening of enforcement of social norms
Sex is good. People enjoy having sex and watching naked people. The market sees that as an opportunity and provides them with what they demand. That has happened since the invention of prostitution.
So yes, capitalism leads to a more sexually free society. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
>>928380
Well, pornography was prohibited in East Germany but there was a demand for it on the black market. We do not know if sex would have been any less commodified in East Germany if it was actually allowed.
>>930145
I'd argue that the substantial drops in promiscuity and teenage pregnancy since the late 80s suggest a slow return to traditional morality
>>930284
Women have always participants in capitalism, even when they lacked much agency. What changed was capitalism shifting to be for women as much as it was for men.
>>931953
It was about replacing a family model with an individualist model to be best effective as a drone, consumer and taxpayer. Feminism serves capitalism and the bourgeoisie by not reflecting on their arbeit macht frei result.
Ed Bernays played all the same notes.
Does the decrease in promiscuity suggest the faltering nature of capitalism?
>>931609
>sex is good
>fake sex by tvs is good evn though it interrupts people from family formation
No thx
