The Great Happiness Space is an amazing full-length documentary (available in full online) about “host” clubs in Japan. These clubs service women, mostly sex workers, who buy time with men (hosts, who also get a cut of all the money the women spend on alcohol) who pretend like they love them. The women establish long-term relationships with their hosts, spend sometimes 10s of thousands of dollars in a night, all to have the feeling that someone cares for them. So they earn tons of money giving sex to men and then they turn around and give that money back to men who give them affection (and sometimes sex). The hosts make between 10,000 and 50,000 a month. Also a great study in cross-cultural gender differences.
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Caramel Hitaco — July 26, 2021
Apa Anda ketahui tepat kenapa Anda tidak terpacu? Ini harus jadi hal pertama kali yang Anda kerjakan. Cari tahu kenapa Anda tidak terpacu akan memberikan Anda wacana mengenai apa yang sesungguhnya tidak Anda gemari dari pekerjaan Anda.
Anda kemungkinan mendapati jika Anda menyenangi pekerjaan Anda tapi tidak senang bekerja untuk bos Anda yang krisis. Atau ketertarikan Anda berbeda seiring berjalannya waktu dan Anda tidak menyenangi tempat tempat Anda ada kembali. Atau Anda senang bergaul, https://tas-mewah.com/ tapi Anda bekerja di bedeng tempat Anda jarang-jarang berhubungan dengan rekanan kerja.
yana bereta — June 17, 2023
won't stop you from seeking 24/7
Tanya — April 23, 2025
Such an important topic—when sex and love become commodities, it changes how we relate to ourselves and each other. It’s worth asking: are we shaping relationships around connection, or consumption? Powerful stuff to think about.
Hossein — August 15, 2025
ean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, sociologist, and cultural theorist who lived between 1929 and 2007, was one of the most important postmodern thinkers and one of the most recognized theorists in areas such as media, consumer culture, semiotics, and simulation. He blamed pornography for two main reasons: first, for manipulating sexual relations in order to disconnect them from class struggle; and second, for corrupting sex by commodifying it.
Today, virtual space and visual media are saturated with pornographic images and videos. Advertising now meticulously promotes sexual enhancement products — from pills and gels to artificial and electronic devices. Porn channels are expanding year after year, and some porn stars have even become global celebrities.
In today’s world, as much as “sex” is promoted, “lovemaking” is becoming increasingly forgotten — replaced by the commodified ideal of the “perfect body.” Influencer culture, distorted Instagram aesthetics, "Kim Kardashian-ism," and the idolization of certain porn stars have become the feminine ideal — not women in traditional attire, nor those imagined in the literary paradigm of “Layla and Majnun.”
Sex today is entangled with money and advertising and has become a lucrative and appealing industry for capitalists — including network owners, performers, magazine publishers, fashion marketers, pharmaceutical companies, and producers of sex-related tools.
Žižek and Ideology in Contemporary Sexual Culture
Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, and social critic known for his work on philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, and popular culture, believes ideology isn’t just a set of beliefs, but something reproduced in everyday behavior and pop culture. He argues that consumer culture and media are part of the machinery that upholds ideology.
Žižek says:
“Love is what transforms sex into something more than just mutual masturbation. Without love, even when you're with your partner, you're just masturbating with them.”
Yet today’s media environment increasingly promotes the commodified version of sex in place of genuine lovemaking. In this vast, profit-driven machinery, sex is no longer a human connection rooted in love and affection — it becomes merely the rubbing of sculpted, synthetic bodies against one another.
In a commodified world, lovemaking has been reduced to “f***ing,” and sex has been emptied of meaning and emotion.
In porn films today, we see people pretending to enjoy themselves in front of the camera, yet they often go home numb and disillusioned, physically and emotionally exhausted. (Statistics show that suicide rates among porn actors are higher than the general population.)
The Loss of Love in the Marketplace of Desire
In our world, not only is there no restriction on multiple sexual relationships, but the "sexually attractive body" is aggressively promoted in media, urging people to seek more pleasure. What is sacrificed in this commodified marketplace, however, is “loving and making love” — which goes beyond physical beauty and bodily features.
The porn industry has become a factory producing muscular bodies, thick makeup, and excessive cosmetic surgeries, evoking robots manufactured in workshops — void of soul and genuine human emotion.
Chapter Summary: Enlightenment to the 19th Century
The Enlightenment and the 19th century had two contradictory faces:
On one hand, new freedoms in love, marriage, and scientific understanding of sexuality; on the other, modern control mechanisms through law, medicine, and social structures. This era laid the cultural and intellectual groundwork for the sexual revolution of the 20th century.
Hossein — August 15, 2025
I am writting special book is name The commodificatio of Nature,The Body ,and life in the Era of global caplitalism that will publish next two week in Amazon but if any body interest send email to recive a copy =ghdavani@gmail.com