pure materiality

In that sense, casual sex mimics the anonymity and transience of interactions in the consumer sphere and mixes features located at two opposite poles: distance and strangeness on the one hand (as is the case of interactions where one does not know another's name), and closeness on the other (cultural signs of closeness include showing oneself naked, sharing one's bedroom or bed, sharing sexual pleasure). It It disconnects between body and selfhood since it views the body as an autonomous source of pleasure and thus as a pure materiality.