Sexuality In Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World

Huxley accurately depicts how the later industrial revolution left many questioning the rules of modesty and privacy in a newly interconnected world. He portrays how an expansion of transportation and communication, a new sense of openness regarding sexualty, and an onset of socialism led to this moral revolution.
The expansion of transportation and communication in the early 20th Century, made affordable through mass production, brought revolutionary changes as distances grew shorter and privacy rarer. Huxley narrates, “God isn’t compatible with machines and science and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness” (Huxley 234). He explains how the civilization has advanced

Dress, language, and literature brought a greater openness for both men and women in their sexual lives. Huxley depicts an exchange between two female characters, “It’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man. At forty, or thirty-five, it wouldn’t be so bad. But at your age, Lenina! No, it really won’t do” (Huxley 41). In this society, they are very open with their sexuality from an exceedingly young age, which has led to a decline in the importance and meaning of personal relationships, to the point where being with just one person for too long is considered slanderous. The early 20th Century brought on many changes in media and public interaction that likely led to this extreme. Some hailed these changes as the beginning of true individual freedom, while others condemned it as the end of civilization itself. Huxley, with typical wit, uses the issue for irony, creating an image of the young Lenina being scolded for her lack of

‘Orgy-porgy…’ In their blood-coloured and foetal darkness the dancers continued for a while to circulate, to beat and beat out the indefatigable rhythm. ‘Orgy-porgy…’ Then the circle wavered, broke, fell in partial disintegration on the ring of couches which surrounded—circle enclosing circle—the table and its planetary chairs. ‘Orgy-porgy…’ Tenderly the deep Voice crooned and cooed; in the red twilight it was as though some enormous negro dove were hovering benevolently over the now prone or supine dancers.” This scene quite obviously shows the increase in openness in sexualty, however, it also brings up an interesting connection to one of the very first scenes, in which the Director of the hatchery gives a tour of the room where human embryos are grown and conditioned, where the entire room is soaked in red light as it’s the only light the embryos can tolerate. The copulating adults here are compared to the little embryos inside their bottles. The adults who are bathed in red light and trapped inside metaphorical bottles are made infantile. Think about babies. When they want something, they cry. When they're hungry, they eat. They basically