“Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.” LoveTruthSexWorkCapitalismPurityFeelingBourgeois Society Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“As the arrangements of life no longer allow time for pleasure conscious of itself, replacing it by the performance of physiological functions, de-inhibited sex is itself de-sexualized. Really, they no longer want ecstasy at all, but merely compensation for an outlay that, best of all, they would like to save as superfluous.” SexCapitalismLustLate Capitalism Author:Theodor W. Adorno