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This is my face

and this is a letter i wrote to a good friend.

Dear XXXX:

When in Nowhere we talked about the pill, i felt like I wasn't totally able to tell you why I am so against it.
Hope u don't mind if i tell u a bit more.
We are now, as you know, in the third phase of capitalism: first there was the industrial revolution/slavery, then the Taylorism/Fordism where the middle class appeared, and now we are in what Beatriz Preciado calls the "farmacopornism".
What is this? Its a capitalism that doesn t aim to the trade of tangible production anymore (steel, cars, machinery), but to the trade and production of tertiary goods: information and communication. They have discovered that there is a huge pool of money in the control of our subjectivities. What is our subjectivity? it's a mix of our sexuality and our identity. Our desiring body, that likes or dislikes something without the intervention of Reason or the State.

Since the end of the WWII there was a boom in research in farmacology having to do with sexuality and "behavioural troubles"(from depression to hyperactivity to erectile dysfunction). LSD, DMT, MDMA, Viagra, Methadone, Prozac, Oestradiol, and the Pill amongst thousands of others were all invented in the post WWII-Cold War USA, with the State's money.
What do all these substances do? They provide us the feeling of release, autosatisfaction, omnipotent control, and happiness that we can't find out there. All these tend to organize, name, and therefore castrate our desires.

Tell me, how would the Capitalist Patriarchal Order survive if the care of the babies wasn't ensured by women, that is, for free? That's why they wish to remove in us our male hormones, for example testosterone (a hormone that has to do with vigour, efficacity and authority defiance) which is, as every hormone, present in every body, bio-female, bio male or intersex. Women aren't supposed to be hairy, not because it's "ugly" but because a woman that is hairy is supposed to have more testosterone in her, and she won't be the coy caretaker/servant she is supposed to be to make this shit work.
How do they castrate our "male"? Beauty standards, social acceptance rules, but they are sneakier than that. The Pill (a compound of female hormones such as Oestrogen) is given to us for almost nothing, whereas it's quite expensive and hard to get Testosterone. It makes of us that little unstable uber feminine creature that will then take other substances to counter rest the disturbances she feels, thus giving more money to the Farmacological Industry.
The term "Farmacopornism" goes also to describe the mega sexualisation of pretty much everything nowadays, padded bras for 9 yr olds, etc. The double standard is "Look at this HOT whatever, you know you want it, you desire it. Desire is primal, animal and untamed, so we (white, male, straight, capitalist powers) have nothing to do with you wanting it. You're free, you're in control of your desire" We're supposed to desire freely. But the truth is that they educate our desire, stimulate it in the parts that go to perpetrate the Heteronormative Order, make it taboo, shameful or even illegal in the parts that do not serve the world's economy.

ANYWAY sorry to bore you, it might not be really clear, but i really needed to express myself on that one, and I know you are good ears. There is very clear patent of sexopolitical analysis of the economy that very few people are willing to talk about.
Love
S.