POTENTIA GAUDENDI
To understand how and why sexuality and the body, the excitable body, at the end of the nineteenth century raided the heart of political action and became the objects of a minute governmental and industrial management, we must first elaborate a new philosophical concept in the pharmacopornographic domain that is equivalent to the force of work in the domain of classical economics. I call potentia gaudendi, or “orgasmic force,” the (real or virtual) strength of a body’s (total) excitation.
[...]
This strength is of indeterminate capacity; it has no gender; it is neither male nor female, neither human nor animal, neither animated nor inanimate.
[...]
It favors no organ over any other, so that the penis possesses no more orgasmic force than the vagina, the eye, or the toe. Orgasmic force is the sum of the potential for excitation inherent in every material molecule.
[...]
Potentia gaudendi unites all material, somatic, and psychic forces and seeks all biochemical resources and all the structures of the mind.
[...]
The living pansexual body is the bioport of the orgasmic force. Thus, it cannot be reduced to a prediscursive organism; its limits do not coincide with the skin capsule that surrounds it. This life cannot be understood as a biological given; it does not exist outside the interlacing of production and culture that belongs to technoscience. This body is a technoliving, multiconnected entity incorporating technology. Neither an organism nor a machine, but “the fluid, dispersed, networking techno-organic textualmythic system.”
TESTO JUNKIE, Paul B. Preciado, 2013, pp 41-43