A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women by offering other resources in exchange. Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex. Societies will endow female sexuality, but not male sexuality, with value (as in virginity, fidelity, chastity). The sexual activities of different couples are loosely interrelated by a marketplace, instead of being fully separate or private, and each couple's decisions may be influenced by market conditions. Economic principles suggest that the price of sex will depend on supply and demand, competition among sellers, variations in product, collusion among sellers, and other factors. Research findings show gender asymmetries (reflecting the complementary economic roles) in prostitution, courtship, infidelity and divorce, female competition, the sexual revolution and changing norms, unequal status between partners, cultural suppression of female sex...

Sexuality was previously studied from different perspectives: sexual orientation, health and health risks, gender domination, heterodox practices and stigma, deviance and transgression, sex work, etc. The analysis in terms of negotiations allows to articulate the monetary economy, the symbolic economy and the economy of feelings or emotions, which often cross or are interwoven. It also explores the issues of control and power relations, as well as space margins of individual freedom.

"The English unemployed did not become workers to survive, they hang on tight and spit on me, enjoyed the hysterical, masochistic, whatever exhaustion it was of hanging on in the mines, in the foundries, in the factories, in hell . . . enjoyed the mad destruction of their organic body . . . the decomposition of their personal identity . . . the dissolution of their families and villages . . ." proposed Lyotard, at the time provocatively, in his seminal Libidinal Economy. In the wake of post-68 failure, referring to Marx's analysis of early industrial capitalism and his political project as being marked by a peculiar libidinal investment in capitalism, he proposed a kind of unfruitful expenditure of libidinal energies as a means of disavowal from within.Taking cue from such notions, we would like to propose a one-day workshop, the aim of which is rethinking the connection between desire and political economy within late capitalism. Is Lyotard's notion of joyful investment in work still hold and what form does it take in cognitive, affective, relational labour? Can desire be reinvested otherwise? How have late capitalist modes of investment of desire changed sexual politics proper? What kinds of norms are being put into place and through what economic, political, biological, biochemical etc. Dispositifs? What role does sexual industry and sexual work play in contemporary regimes of investment of desire? And most importantly: how could desire be invested otherwise? Realizing desire and sexuality play a crucial role in contemporary modes of power operation and articulations of political economy, in contemporary 'pharmakopornocapitalism, to borrow Beatriz Preciado's term, the workshop on Libidinal Economy proposes to engage with this and more questions, with the aim of creating an open platform for the discussion of issues that tackle our bodies and subjectivities most intimately. From the molecular to the subjective, what are contemporary normative economies of desire and how could we work towards their destabilization? In order to tackle these and more related questions, we organize a one-day long seminar retreat with three intensive reading sessions and three discussions, opened by impulse talks on the topic, given by Prof. Greta Olson, Prof. Gerald Siegmund, and Prof. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodriguez.

RESUMO Objetivo: Analisar a centralidade na estrutura das representações sociais elaboradas por trabalhadoras sexuais sobre satisfação sexual. Método: Estudo qualitativo, fundamentado na abordagem estrutural da Teoria das Representações Sociais. Realizado com 69 prostitutas da região do Alto Sertão Produtivo Baiano. Utilizou-se um roteiro para aplicação do Teste de Associação Livre de Palavras e Entrevista em Profundidade, cujas respostas foram analisadas com o auxílio dos softwares EVOC e IRAMUTEQ. Resultados: A centralidade representacional das trabalhadoras sexuais sobre satisfação sexual está estruturada nos termos dinheiro e satisfação, esse último como sinônimo de prazer. Tais termos revelaram três dimensões representacionais transversais: autoestima, ato sexual e financeira. Assim, as representações sociais sobre satisfação sexual estiveram centradas na satisfação financeira e sexual. Conclusão: As representações permitem sugerir que enfermeiras repensem suas práticas de cuid...

Both historically and in the present, the political left has sought to lead the struggle for sexual rights via society or the state. The socialist left emerged simultaneously with the epoch of bourgeois production, or capital, as the modern struggle for freedom in conditions of industrial production. In what follows, I trace the trajectory of this question from "utopian" and "scientific" socialism through to their epigones in the 20th century up to the present. What did they mean by a liberated sexuality? What are the bounds of sexual freedom, if any, available to us in capitalism? How does economic life influence our imaginations of liberation? What is the role of the state versus civil-social action in realizing the emancipatory demands of queers and women much less for everyone? Ultimately I argue that the Marxian critique of capitalist society, or imminent dialectical critique of its necessary phenomena, enables one to read history "against the grain" shedding light on how present struggles are tasked with realizing a future beyond capital.