The Marxist tradition of alienated labor applies universally to commodity exchange of human labor-power, undermining any claim that prostitution's non-reciprocity is categorically unique.
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Non-reciprocity(as used in ethics and social theory)
A one-sided transaction where one person gives or receives something without equal exchange in return—an imbalance where the benefit flows mainly one direction.
alienated labor(Marx's 1844 Manuscripts account of labor under capitalist conditions)
Labor that is external to the worker's essential being — in which the worker does not affirm the self, does not feel content, does not freely develop physical and mental energy, and which serves only as a means to satisfy needs external to the labor activity itself.
commodity(Marx's analysis in Capital Volume 1)
A useful external object, produced for exchange on a market.