Imagining Sex Redistribution
Would this be like a form of taxation, or a form of collective ownership?
At the beginning of May 2018, Ross Douthat’s op-ed in the New York Times asked whether we ought to consider a redistributive policy toward sex. Incels were in the media, with their key voiced complaint being lack of access to sex. So — let’s explore that in a thought experiment. Note, I am not going to discuss the merits of this idea, or whether or not sexual scarcity is a thing.
Let’s just assume that the bureaucratic policy makers are discussing redistributing sex. Let’s take that at face value and see what we get.
What Kind of Sex?
First, redistributing sex would require a codified definition of what sex actually IS in order to redistribute it. Redistributive policies generally have the population at large to consider, so we’d need to ensure any definition encapsulates sex for a broad swathe of the populus.
Would this mean that the baseline sex-commodity for people with clitorises would be cunnilingus, and for people with penises, it would be a form of penetrative sex (oral, anal, or vaginal)? What would the pleasure differential be between these varying acts and how would we quantify their TPV (total pleasure value) in order to model this system?
