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you’re collapsing distinct concepts together. prostitution cannot be assimilated into the Marxist sense of “work” because what becomes a *commodity* is *labor-power* within the ‘Boss—Proletarian’ dialectic. it is not the worker themself and this distinction is foundational to the very concept of wage labor. the wage relation presupposes the separation of the worker from their person, and depends on a very specific historical abstraction; the worker must appear on the market only as the seller of labor-power (such relations actually protect a conceptual boundary between the person and the commodity). prostitution is categorically different because the object of consumption is not labor-power producing an external product, but the *body* itself as the immediate site of consumption. in other words, the sexual flesh trade is the point where the commodity form begins to encroach directly upon the person—in the 21st century world system it is namely children and women of the oppressed periphery—rather than merely their labor capacity. there are three interlinked processes, 1) formal subsumption 2) the commodification of sexual access, 3) and the industrial organization of rape exploitation. the global prostitution system is nothing new but is rather the old institutions of concubinage and sexual slavery that have been rationalized, internationally scaled, and administered to be reconfigured into markets of world imperialism.
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the distinction between sex work and other forms of wage labor is formal, not categorical. capital is indifferent to the content of labor so long as it can be organized as a commodity-relation.
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