No soy un objeto sexual (2022)

No soy un objeto sexual could be a political slogan against the objectification of the body, or perhaps a social programme about feminist empowerment in the face of porn culture. Indeed, the pornographic image fragments and objectifies genitality, and this fragmented image also speaks to us of an existence torn apart by the devices of indexing and accumulation of Big Data, where lustful images of sexual exchanges abound. In the age of the ubiquity of pornography, smart sex toys and the normalisation of dating apps, a priori we could not say that sexuality is a transgression. In fact, late capitalism would be more like an apology for all of this.

It is not in vain that in his theory of fetishism, Freud took a concept previously developed by Marx from a critique of capitalism, which points not only to the commodification of the body, but also to the commodification of desire. For this reason, I am not a sexual object could even be the rebellion of an army of dildos organised to claim another role in society, like the one given to them by Paul B. Preciado in its Manifeste contra-sexuel (Preciado, 2000), where the deconstruction of sexual practices and genitality leads them to announce the primacy of the dildo over the penis, assuming the theory developed by Jean Baurdrillard (Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 1981) that the image precedes reality.

Text by Diana Padrón (fragment)