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El liberalismo a la conquista del amor. Algunas constataciones y reflexiones sobre el consumo sentimental y sexual de masa en la era de internet

Authors

  • Pascal Lardellier Universidad de Borgoña, Francia
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Abstract

Since ten years, the increase of meeting websites for singles has helped to introduce technology and “industrialize” the emotional-sexual relationships. This paper shows that more widely the principles of liberalism as doctrine have taken over love relationships in a variety of ways, because a new relationship economy, based on effectiveness, interchangeability, performance and profitability, largely prevails over these meeting websites.

Keywords:

Internet , meeting websites , emotional-sexual relationships , liberalism , new relationship economy , liberal values and counter-values