Singer, Linda. (1993). Sex and the Logic of Late Capitalism. In J. B. a. M. MacGrogan (Ed.), Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic, . New York: Routledge.

p. 80-82

What is ironic to me, and I suspect to others, about the contemporary situation in which the state apparatus is being mobilized in the promotion of what is being called " safe sex," are some of the forms of resistance, psychical as well as ideological, this campaign is encountering....Whether that resistance operates through a romantic stylization, or through the aesthetics offered by a more self-conscious politics of ecstasy, both depend upon mobilizing the power attached to the idea of a sexuality, and a form of empowering pleasure accompanying it, that not only are separable from the disciplinary mechanisms, but can function as grounds for opposing them, as though that oppositional sexuality was not itself a product of a disciplinary production.

In terms of the contemporary situation, this configuration carries with it the rather killing contradiction of resistance to any concerted social effort to consider issues of sexual safety in the name of the more pleasurable -i.e., less disciplined, spontaneous - sexuality, marked by the failure to consider or act in light of sexual risks, or, even more problematically to eroticize them. What is worse, such logic tends to lull the population into a state of despair over having lost what was never really available as such in the first place.

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