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abroader
abroader
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High School - 10th Grade

What is the function of sex in Brave new World?

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Posted by abroader on Thursday May 21, 2009 at 1:47 AM and tagged with bnw, brave new world.

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  1. danylyshen Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Sex in BNW is used as a form of release, an outlet, and as entertainment--not as a form of procreation. In the BNW sex and promiscuity is encouraged and programmed into all of its inhabitants. Children run around and play erotic games, adults have the feelies, and promiscuity is celebrated. The only people capable of providing the embryos for fertilization are freemartins--women whose sexual apparatus is left untouched and pristine. Huxley has created an inverse world from the way we traditionally see sex. Certainly, our times have become more and more sexually liberal, but think of what an effect his novel's portrayal of sexuality must have had on the readership of his day...

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    Posted by danylyshen on Thursday May 21, 2009 at 6:30 AM