Erotic Economy: Why a Woman’s Pleasure is Bad for Capitalism

The Profit in Your Disconnection

A woman at war with her body is easy to market to.

She buys more products. She signs up for more programs. She diets, bleaches, waxes, performs, apologises, produces. She is taught to be efficient, pleasing, beautiful, and tired. She is taught that her worth is in her usefulness.

Capitalism, the extractive system built to convert energy into productivity and profit, does not thrive when a woman is rested, radiant and whole.

Because a woman who trusts her desire cannot be manipulated. A woman who prioritises rest cannot be overworked. A woman who is erotically connected to herself cannot be sold shame as a solution.

Pleasure is bad for capitalism. Because it makes you full. And capitalism relies on your hunger.

How the Erotic Became Economically Dangerous

From the industrial revolution to the digital age, the dominant economic system has thrived on speed, scalability, and disembodiment. We are conditioned to override the body’s rhythms in favour of performance, urgency, and output.

The feminine body is cyclical, emotional, intuitive, sensual. It is not compatible with this system. So it is subdued.

Pleasure, softness, sexuality, slowness, emotion: these are labelled weaknesses, when in truth they are sacred technologies. They connect us to ourselves. And anything that reconnects a woman to herself is a threat to a system that profits from her fragmentation.

When you reclaim your erotic aliveness, you reclaim your time. Your sovereignty. Your refusal to be owned.

Burnout is a Feminist Issue

Productivity culture rewards exhaustion. Women are praised for pushing through, for doing it all, for never needing rest.

But burnout is not a badge of honour. It is a wound of capitalism.

Rest is a form of refusal. Pleasure is a form of protest.

When a woman says, "No, I will not burn myself out to prove my worth," she is choosing her humanity over her productivity. That is a deeply political act.

We must decondition our nervous systems from survival-driven output and return to the erotic rhythms of the body: pulse, cycle, sensation, breath.

The Commodification of Feminine Power

Capitalism has a clever way of repackaging empowerment as consumption.

We are sold empowerment through beauty products, lingerie, wellness apps, pole classes, sex toys. And while none of these are inherently bad, the problem lies in the implication: you must buy something to be powerful.

True erotic power is not bought. It is reclaimed. It comes not from performance, but presence. Not from product, but from practice.

The system is not afraid of your sexiness. It is afraid of your self-sourced satisfaction.

Pleasure as Economic Rebellion

Pleasure slows you down. It invites you into your body. It recalibrates your nervous system. It interrupts urgency, overthinking, productivity addiction.

When you prioritise pleasure, you de-centre capitalism. You become harder to control, to rush, to sell to.

Alchemē oils are not just sensual tools. They are sensual interruptions. They remind you that your life force is not a resource to be mined. Your time, your energy, your womb, your skin—they are yours.

To oil your body slowly is to say: I am not for sale. To prioritise beauty, breath, and self-touch is to say: I do not exist to be useful. I exist to feel.

Choosing Joy in a System That Benefits from Your Pain

Capitalism thrives on shame. It markets to your insecurities. It needs you to believe you're not enough.

When you reclaim your joy, your pleasure, your slowness, your rest—you unplug from that system. You stop feeding the machine that depends on your depletion.

To choose joy is to choose yourself. To choose sensuality is to choose presence over performance. To choose rest is to choose life over labour.

This is not indulgent. It is insurgent.