After this chapter, I feel like I need a shower. Prostitution, forced marriges, loveless sex, the whole lot of things in this chapter make me want to wash my mouth out with soap...
Katharine, Winstons wife, was a hardcore party member, and lived her entire life for the party. Although they were married, there was no emotion in the relationship, it was purely procreative. The party tried to take all the pleasure out of sex, and make it only for haveing children, and for some people it worked. Katharine, what little we know about her, hated sex, she found it disgusting, and dreaded it yet baisically forced winston to do it. She would close her eyes and grit her teeth and prayed for it to be over with. Winston was also not very interested, he wanted not to be with her, and even attempted to stay celibate. He later had a "run in" with a prostitute, but found his experince to be less than enjoyable.
Prostitution is punishable by death to party members, and actually incoraged to proles. The anti-sex league is a group of people that discourages sex and spreads lies about what will happen if you do choose to have intercourse. When women are still young girls it is instilled upon them that sex is disgusting and not to be enjoyed, but merely to reproduce. They are told lies about what will happen if you have sex and fear everything about it.
It is surprising to view the contrast between our societies view on sex and that of 1984's. In America we glamorize it in the media, movies, TV shows, there is even an entire genre of books about sex. I think there should be some sort of happy medium, because there are far too many pregnant high-school students and single parents. The youth of both societies need to be told the truth about sex and showed the ramifications it leaves upon them and their entire community.
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