Download or read book The Currency of Desire written by David Bennett and published by Lawrence & Wishart. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of money has informed medical, psychological and political theories of sexual desire for at least 300 years. Desire, figured as libidinal energy, represented potential work-power and spending-power and hence a form of personal 'capital', an economic resource for both the individual and the collectivity. This book explores how this view