Writing Desire is an analysis of the relationship between writing and the body in the construction of desire. The work puts in relation the way that desire is written about and represented through electronic means of communication with the dis-incarnation of sexuality and the commodification of relationships between sexes. Though the underage 'correspondents' from the Philippines or the brides ordered by correspondence were already part of the international market's transactions of desire at the postcolonial era or after the cold war, well before the digital era, the internet has considerably accelerated this process. The online wedding market becomes the point of convergence of virtual exchanges and the circulation of bodies. On the websites, the representation of the female body is reduced to a bare minimum of visual and textual information. 'Eastern girls' and 'young asians' are so-described and offered to a global masculine community as objects of desire. Conversely, other websites consider women as the desiring subject, giving them the opportunity, thanks to communication technologies, to seek this obscure object of desire among men.

Translated by Mia Stern, 2021