Based on the rate at which "cuck" has proliferated from niche fetish into all-purpose adjective I'm gonna guess no.https://twitter.com/bigmeaninternet/status/989102124687659008 …
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A few years ago when "alpha/beta" language started showing up regularly in gay men's sexual discourse I wrote a blog post predicting we'd end up with exactly this kind of essentialized evo-psych-freshman sexual hierarchy.
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Say what you will about the ideology of romance and its convenient conformity with the compulsory heterosexuality of the nuclear family: at least that ideology doesn't insist on ranking people according to a frankly eugenicist concept of sexual value.
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We've heard so much about the "commodification of sex" the last two decades, as if sex was ever not a commodity, as if there was a time before sex work. What's happening now isn't commodification, it's *currencification,* the transformation of sex into a general signifier.
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"Commodification" renders an abstract good or value concrete by making it available to mediated exchange. Currencification makes that good or value *itself the medium of exchange,* the measure by which other goods or values are rendered legible and evaluated.
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