2. There is no concept of sexual morality in Brave New World. “Everyone belongs to everyone else”, as the hypnopaedic phrase goes. The citizens of the World State are conditioned to have strictly sexual relationships with no emotional attachment. They can be loyal to no one but the State. The hypnopaedic conditioning that everyone undergoes sets up the State’s control over the individual, because to the people they are not phrases, but absolute truth. The individual knows nothing different, so they believe only the things the State tells them.
Sexual immorality provides “release” from the rigidity of the World State. The solidarity service in chapter five illustrates this point. Even though the State retains control over the individuals, it has not yet eliminated human nature. That being said, even through conditioning, human desires have not been wiped out. The need to experience strong emotion is still intact, and so the State facilitates solidarity services as a means to do so. This will channel the emotion in a way that it does not serve as a threat to the State, and keeps the people in their perpetual state of happiness.
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