Sexual behaviour as the means
Sexual behaviour as the meansSexual Behaviour as the Means Order
Sexual behaviour has been changed and moulded into a revolution over the last 100 years. The changes in our societies have allowed the freedom of public displays of affection. Woman have also played a large part of the sexual revolution. They have gone from doing all that men want to asking men on dates. With this sexual freedom problems have arrived. Rape and sexual harassment have increased leaving us to ask questions. Is sexual freedom much better than sexual repression? Both Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 present the issues of sexual repression and freedom. Both authors examine how sexual behaviour are the means of order in society. Brave New World’s sexual freedom and 1984’s sexual repression are the means of order in their societies yet with this tragedies arise.
In Brave New World Aldous Huxley examines a futuristic anti-utopian society. This society is strong in sexual freedom. Natural reproduction is no longer used to reproduce. A process called “Bokanovsky’s Process”(3) is used. This process is the fertilizing and conditioning of embryos and toddlers. This process is Brave New Worlds way of keeping “social stability”(5) .This world of laboratory babies occurs only because of the engineering of the embryos before they are born. Approximately 75% of female embryos are dosed with a male sex-hormone to render them sterile(10).These embryos are then given the name “freemartins”(10). The other 25% of embryos are given pregnancy substitutes and wear fertility belts(34). Brave New World’s Controller for western Europe, Mustapha Mond believes, “everyone belongs to everyone else”(35). He believes family, monogamy, and romance lead to chaos in a society(35).The main female character in the novel Lenina, is looked down upon for having only one male partner in the last couple of weeks. Old world taboos are shot down in Brave New World and new ones are put in place. Children are watched and encouraged to have erotic play. Abnormal behaviour to the world controllers are those boys and girls who do not wish to play together. Early in chapter three the director is examining many young children in their erotic play and he tells his students, “ For a very long period of time before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children were regarded as abnormal...actually immoral” (28). Today sex on the first date is considered to be morally wrong where in Brave New World sex on the first date is encouraged. Brave New World is a world controlled and programmed in a certain way. Natural
reproduction is wrong and can lead to problems in the order of beings in the society. Due to this processes occur to allow the freedom of sex for woman so they do not become pregnant. In conclusion world order in Brave New World only occurs with the sexual freedom of it’s citizens.
While Brave New...
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