Dufour, Dany-Robert

Sexual addiction and market economy - 2017.


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In this article, the author describes how much love has been gradually swallowed up by the market economy. Capitalism has begun to exploit the ego-gregarious mechanisms at work in consumption by promising even more than the satisfaction of passing whims; now it offers the full realization of all fantasies. Eroticism, once prodigal and gratuitous, has been transformed into a highly profitable activity, pornography, by setting up addictive mechanisms.