The primary understanding of the meaning for this term - sexual trading - is the exchange of money (or protection or shelter or social place or self-definition) for intimate bodily access. And the flow of this exchange has been predominantly (although now we find not as exclusively as once thought) payment from men for access to the bodies of women.

 

This meaning, burdened by the lightening in a box word sexual, carries a thinness of interpretation of human exchange. This same lightening infects the life force word “eros,” conflating it with sexual trading.  This narrows to a trickle what can be a torrent of energetic, communicative exchange between humans…

 

 

 

Change is dependent upon woman being released/releasing ourselves from being this, a site only of sex & reproduction.  Or said another way: from being body, only.