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This chapter outlines the vital historical relationship between capitalism and the sexual body. The monolithic legitimacy of heteronormativity, perceived distinctions between male and female sexualities, and the constructed deviance of homosexuality, for example, are profoundly linked to the economic utility of structures such as primogeniture, gendered divisions of labour and the reproductive creation of the workforce. This introduction asserts the necessity of updating for the digital age this understanding of economic productivity’s dependence on the regulation of sexual behaviour. It establishes the significance of online pornography to the relationship between the sexual body and new forms of specifically digital capitalist accumulation. It begins an exploration too of how the pornographic film genre has been affected and altered by its development within the digital economy.
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Saunders, R. (2020). Introduction. In: Bodies of Work. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49016-4_1
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