I will say that it has occurred to me that so much of the book we have could be easily rewritten not to be in a futuristic sex-mandating culture, but in a contemporary Christian private school in the US.
It would be a find-and-replace from the sex-mandating culture to a contemporary purity culture. The effect would be very much the same.
Catholic School Girl Lenina would be less interested in sex and being liked for being good at sex, instead very interested in being a good, virgin girl and very interested in being appreciated as fitting into purity-culture requirements.
Bernard Marx wouldn't have to be interested in sex so much as interested in the same thing's he's interested in, now, which include understanding and surmounting the constrictive effects that his culture place on him.
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It would be a find-and-replace from the sex-mandating culture to a contemporary purity culture. The effect would be very much the same.
Catholic School Girl Lenina would be less interested in sex and being liked for being good at sex, instead very interested in being a good, virgin girl and very interested in being appreciated as fitting into purity-culture requirements.
Bernard Marx wouldn't have to be interested in sex so much as interested in the same thing's he's interested in, now, which include understanding and surmounting the constrictive effects that his culture place on him.