potentia gaudendi
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In sexuality studies, potentia gaudendi or orgasmic force is the physical and mental potential (or capacity) for pleasure in a body.{{sfnm|1a1=Pettman|1y=2021|1p=37|2a1=Rivas|2y=2015|2p=149}} The term was coined by philosopher Paul B. Preciado, who says contemporary economies exploit the body by offering services to increase pleasure—such as Viagra and cocaine—which turn it into a commodity.{{sfn|Pettman|2021|p=37}} It is similar to jouissance in Lacanian psychoanalysis and libido in Sigmund Freud's works.{{sfn|Cooke|2020|p=146}}
Potentia gaudendi is an important concept in Preciado's work, because it underlies his theory of "pornpower": the idea that sex and pornography is part of a larger and interlocking economic system.{{sfn|Gotkin|2017|pp=413-414}} The ability to desire, or to withhold desire, cannot be transferred; as a result, economies are always in the process of "emotionally engaging people in order to generate value."{{sfn|Liska|2020|p=423}}
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- {{cite book |last1=Cooke |first1=Jennifer |title=Contemporary feminist life-writing |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108805254}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Gotkin |first1=Kevin |title=Pornography's media breakdown: Troubleshooting in three parts |journal=Porn Studies |date=2 October 2017 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=406–418 |doi=10.1080/23268743.2016.1147373}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Liska |first1=Gerhard |title=An emancipatory topology of desire |journal=World Futures |date=2 October 2020 |volume=76 |issue=5–7 |pages=420–433 |doi=10.1080/02604027.2020.1778343|s2cid=221910576 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Pettman |first1=André |title=Get hard or die trying: Impotence and the displacement of the white male in Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine |journal=French Forum |date=2021 |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=37–51 |doi=10.1353/frf.2021.0002|s2cid=243419283 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Preciado |first1=Paul |title=Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era |publisher=Feminist Press at The City University of New York Forum |date=2013 |isbn=9781558618374}}
- {{cite book |last1=Rivas |first1=Joshua |editor1-last=Brennan |editor1-first=Eugene |editor2-last=Williams |editor2-first=Russell |title=Literature and intoxication: Writing, politics and the experience of excess |date=2015 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |isbn=9781349565184 |chapter=Intoxication and toxicity in a 'pharmacopornographic era': Beatriz Preciado's Testo Junkie}}
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