absolute pauperization

The sexual revolution of the 1960s, widely seen as a liberation movement, is better understood as the intrusion of capitalist values into the previously sacrosanct realm of intimate life. “Just like unrestrained economic liberalism … sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization,” he writes. “Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never.” - A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. [NYT] 

от себя добавлю: are they implying some government intervention is needed to distribute sex more equally? expand the welfare state a bit more? i bet they would rather push back sexual revolution. maximizing happiness? utility? Utilitarinsm?

перевод: Сексуальная дистопия Уэльбека

see also

. Houellebecq’s Incel Prophecy: The Alienated and Intimacy-Starved
. The Prophetic Houellebecq
. Incels & Houellebecq