The Consumerist Sexual Economy: How Modern Ideologies Market Nonmonogamy, Infidelity, Exploit Trauma, and Sell Reconciliation. An Exposé on the Nonmonogamous/Polyamorous, Infidelity/Promiscuity, and Reconciliation Industrial Corpus
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Consumerist Sexual Economy: How Modern Ideologies Market Nonmonogamy, Infidelity, Exploit Trauma, and Sell Reconciliationby Yoav LevinAletheia Institute for Integrative Theoretical System Studies (AIITSS) This monograph presents a groundbreaking critique of the modern sexual economy — the fusion of ideology, consumerism, and psychology that transforms intimacy into a commodity. Drawing on philosophy, sociology, psychology, and Buddhist ethics, it argues that contemporary movements such as feminism, postmodernism, progressivism, and nonmonogamy have merged with neoliberal capitalism to form a unified system that markets alienation as freedom. The book introduces the concept of the Consumerist Sexual Economy (CSE) — a network of industries and ideologies that exploit insecurity, fear, and desire through the rhetoric of empowerment and liberation. It exposes how modern therapy, self-help media, and the polyamory/nonmonogamy industrial corpus operate through the same mechanisms as corporate advertising: creating dissatisfaction, monetizing trauma, and selling reconciliation as a product. Integrating insights from Kalle Lasn’s Culture Jam, Buddhist philosophy, and the author’s original frameworks — Integrative System Theory (IST) and IMS (Inversion → Metastasis → Sublimation) — the work reveals how consumerism has industrialized the Three Poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion into cultural principles. It shows how sexual liberation, once envisioned as freedom, has become a cycle of craving and dependency sustained by ideology and commerce. The analysis culminates in a countermodel: the Economy of Compassion — a philosophical alternative grounded in fidelity, responsibility, and relational ethics. This perspective restores intimacy as a space of truth rather than transaction, and proposes that moral renewal begins with rehumanizing desire. Written outside institutional academia, this independent scholarly monograph combines intellectual rigor with philosophical independence. It represents a new model of post-academic humanism — restoring scholarship’s original purpose: to pursue truth with integrity, clarity, and compassion This work builds on Yoav Levin’s Integrative System Theory (IST) and the IMS Axis (Inversion → Metastasis → Sublimation), two original theoretical models developed within the Aletheia Institute for Integrative Theoretical System Studies. Together they provide a meta-structural approach for analyzing the interaction between ideology, commerce, and consciousness. Drawing from sociology, psychology, evolutionary theory, and Buddhist philosophy, the framework explains how moral and psychological inversions evolve into social norms and how cultural change becomes commodified within late-modern systems of desire and meaning.
Author: Levin, Yoav
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7085201247
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