Brave New World Sex Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Part.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 "Charming, charming," murmured the Director and, giving [Lenina] two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself. (1.93) |
Huxley hints at the rampant promiscuity in this society even before we get to see the whole picture. As readers, we feel more and more uneasy as we go.
| Quote #2 "We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes," she answered. "But now it's switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness." |
Again, we get even more uncomfortable, this time with the notion of sexed-up little kids. And we haven't even gotten to "hunt-the-zipper" yet.
| Quote #3 He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed. |
Of course, this is commentary on our own world, or at least on Huxley's in the 1930s.
