I hate how much people have grown to only care about sex now to the point they can't even enjoy a book, it's kind of sad to see these people whose lives revolve around wanting to shove their penis into a meat hole.
I think if you got into it, it’s less about sex itself and more about loneliness. An over consumption of porn would lead someone who’s never had any form of romance in their life to think sex is all those private moments were for. Definitely a sad worldview
Loneliness is one aspect. I think the worst is acknowledging that one is *undiserable.* That's basically the worst way of being a loser in modern society. I bet most people would rather be poor, but desired (by an attractive person), than rich and (for whatever imaginary reason) undesirable.
It is a lot about the sex too.
I bet most incels, myself included, would have very different opinions about a lot of things if they experienced a relationship and sex at least once.
Agreed. It’s mostly about wanting to feel wanted and socially accepted, to the point that women are willing to sleep with you. It’s just easier to latch onto the idea of sex/a gf, which are fairly simple (albeit sometimes unattainable) goals, than to acknowledge the complete lack of human connection in your life. When you think about it, sex is generally more of an indicator of success than the cause of it.
Yeah I’ve had sex, straight and gay, and every time it was just not that great compared to how it was sold to me. Wasn’t bad really but not amazing also. As soon as I’m done I want nothing to do with them, and it’s back to gaming or whatever else
You can but sex feels infinitely better than jacking off. Sex is fun both with and without the serious emotional attachment, it’s just much much better with it.
Is it you don't understand how having sex with people can be fun, you can't understand why people would have sex for fun, or you don't understand how fun alone is a good enough reason to have sex?
I dont understand why people would have sex with random strangers, people who they have little to no level of bond, relationship, or trust in. Often people refer to that as "it was just for fun".
I don’t understand people who play chess or watch basketball“for fun” and if I say that in r/chess or r/nba I get down voted like if I was spewing hate speech.
Yea, sex and making love are kinda two different things with how they feel.
Find a girl you want nothing more than to please and oh boy it's a lot more fun than you could imagine, for both parties!
Nah I’m rarely intimate physically with anyone and I’m doing great.
Community and social connections are a basic human need. I’m not sure physical intimacy is. But hey maybe I’m wrong haha
To be fair sex does play a pretty big part in 1984. It's also a theme that is strangely very popular in dystopian novels. I think one of the rare exceptions is Farenheit 451.
451 is the rare exception because the MC's wife would rather watch brainrot TV 24/7 than have any sort of intimacy with her husband. Even in bed she uses earbuds to consume brainrot. It's also a theme there but it's the deprivity of any relationship between spouses.
Religion and sex are power plays. manipulate the people for the money they pay... selling skin, selling God... the numbers look the same on the credit cards
-Queensryche
The problem with that viewpoint is that it ignores the detail that physical intimacy is an important component for most people's mental well being. Deprive people of that, they will become a bunch of miserable gits.
If you are so focused in sex that you can't understand how a setting can be dystopian just because the main character has sex then clearly you have more important things missing in your life.
Since incels don't hava access to any kind of intimacy, they go insane.
It's not only the sex. The problem is that they don't know what they are craving, so they focus on the sex, because they are sure that has something to do with their problem.
The sex (or the anti-sex brigade or whatever) is a pretty important part of the story though. Like, a third or half the book important. The book *is* short.
If you struggled to fullfill a basic human instinct, i think you would overfocus on it as well. Especially now when everywhere in the media it is portrayed as the greatest thing to ever happen on god's green earth.
Lame analogy, but if you're dying of thirst in the dessert, water sure as hell is your only priority and craving above all else right. Only when properly hydrated you can take is as given and then start focusing on your other needs
He's probably still a teenager. I couldn't put on my socks without getting a rock hard boner and getting the urge to wank myself blind when I was that age.
I don’t think it’s about that at all, I think it’s a victim mentality and the no sex thing is just an outlet for that. A victim mentality is all about avoiding accountability for your life and past decisions. The worst thing that can happen to some of these incels is that a woman shows some interest in them because then what are they going to blame all their problems and shitty life choices in?
They will act like complete anti-social morons, not treat that girl like a person because they just want a human onahole, and then when she leaves they will complain that the "femoid" was just a shallow Stacy or whatever the fuck.
Do you... Do you think that hasn't always been the case? That there is a subset of people who are obsessed with getting laid? Have you met a young person before?
I agree, while im not prude, the amount of shameless sexualizing of one's self, and horney bait, ect is getting just old. Stg let alone some of the unrealistic standards of "sexual couple videos" like girls posting videos like "your GF dosent love you if she ant giving you head every day" or "your GF mad so slap her ass and fuck her"...
Although Idk what book op is talking about.
There was some post apocalyptic book i was reading in highschool. As soon as the second chapter hit....the female main character was already thinking about re population with another 40 something Y/O man....
We didnt even find out how the apocalypse happened, where the people went, ect...
I threw that shit in the trash.
Honestly, he isn’t really exaggerating. Until he gets captured by thought police, he’s just constantly having sex with Julia. Even before they got together, he thought of raping her, a lot. To be fair though, it’s clearly stated that no one else shares what they did, and during their time in the ministry of love they both betray each other by saying they want the other to feel pain. It’s a very major point that even in their harsh world where they got so close, they would still be so cruel. Literally the whole point
He "betrayed" her after he was tortured for weeks/months and couldn't take it anymore and when he was confronted with his biggest fear (I think having rats chew his face away or something? Something with rats) he said "do it to Julia" instead. I don't how that's as cruelty, he was just pushed to his very end
He also basically had Stockholm syndrome and trauma bonded with O’Brien. “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
The rape part is interesting too because they basically revert him back to his previous feelings on the subject. Julia betrays him too so they both probably will continue to hate one another and he’ll go back to being a sexless angry person.
But it's never explicitly stated that he's killed though? He's just broken by the party until he accepts and loves big brother but gets to live on? That's what I remember...
If I remember correct the book talks about how people found to be doing wrong by the party are captured, re-educated, released, then executed later. The point being to break down someone's will and let a husk roam the streets for a time (for funsies I suppose)
No, it was to show off to everyone who may have known them as a rebel that they have been purified. That they can never be a martyr to represent the rebellion because they betrayed the rebellion
hmm maybe i misinterpreted it then. maybe his imagining that he gets shot is a representation of the destruction of his self
idk i'm stupid and i need to reread that last section because personally it was a doozy for me to get through
though the more that i think about it, the more ambiguous the ending seems to me. it is already mentioned that thoughtcriminals would be released into the world and then executed later after confessing to a whole string of new crimes, so why would winston's case be any different?
1984 is just like Dune
If you read a book only known for it's world building, don't be surprised if the plot outside of the world building is paper thin
His originally fantasies of violence and sexual violence towards her was rooted in his misogyny (he hates young women because they spout the Party slogans more) and he suspected her of being an amateur spy for the Thought Police. The whole point of the affair is that it’s deeply illegal and thus acts as a gateway to them trying to join the Brotherhood. Sex among true IngSoc adherents in 1984 is strictly a mandatory process for the sake of reproduction, you are not allowed to derive any pleasure or emotional connection from it lest your undivided loyalty to Big Brother be shaken. 1984 isn’t just some horny erotica like Anon thinks it to be, Winston’s and Julia’s relationship is literally what drives the plot.
I haven’t read it but I’ve heard that Brave New World’s take on pleasure is directly opposite to 1984’s, in that it’s promoted as a tool to control the population as opposed to suppressed as a tool in 1984.
Part of the point of them having sex, too, was because it was against Party rules. Only the Proles were allowed sex without the need for procreation. In fact the little scene where Winston was so starved for it he paid a Prole prostitute who was older than him and unappealing because he was so desperate. In fact if i remember correctly Julia was supposed to be part of a faction in the party that would never marry or have children. So it was also an act of defiance, because they knew being caught would lead to being captured and killed or worse.
He missed the point *because* what they were doing was dangerous and forbidden and part of the dystopian setting. Anon's head is good for a neat hat rack tho
The one where Winston shoved Hammond in his ball and then the ball up widowmaker’s ass, and then when tracer came looking for Hammond she coerced the information out of Winston with a peanut butter slimed handjob?
And Anon hasn't even read the Wikipedia synopsis of "Brave New World," where the dystopia was defined by sexual freedom, consumerism, people working at will, spending their entire lives in sensual pleasures (porn was allowed), bolstering their happiness with state-sponsored drugs when necessary, and Resistance was literally due to the fact that reading Shakespeare was banned. SEX WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT. WOMEN WERE ONLY YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. ANON WOULD HAVE ALSO HAD A NORMAL BODY. **WHO CALLED THIS A DYSTOPIA???!!!**
Also, Julia was somewhere around 25-27 years old in the novel. That seems like a disgusting old hag for 4chan.
Honestly I find it hard not to obsess about it, when it's constantly glorified everywhere and apparently it's so good it makes you moan.
Like I'm aware that most of it is probably unrealistic but also if it's not normal then why is it like that everywhere?
Being a virgin is confusing cause I can only speculate on what I'm presented with, and all I see is I'm missing out and I'm a failure for not being on tinder and hooking up twice a week
just know sex is nothing like what it is presented as, and if you try to perform to fulfill these expectations then you will most likely make yourself more miserable.
its everywhere because sex sells. and because society is becoming a little hypersexualized.
Ppl here must have really bad sex or be bad at sex when they state „it’s actually not that great“. It is pretty much like driving cars. Your favorite car might be a Honda civic but you cannot deny having the time of your life driving a Ferrari or porsche on a racing track, especially if you know how to drive those things.
1984. Winston is a low level elite deeply unhappy with his life in a repressive authoritarian regime, and is actually jealous of the underclass (who aren't as policed) and the upperclass (who can do whatever they want). The book descends into a romance for the middle bit because Winston is fed up with following the rules and this is an act of rebellion. It doesn't go well for him.
Anon is jealous of another man who is an incel (party members are only allowed sex to procreate) and misses the point of 1984 completely.
OP doesn’t see how his lack of sex has led him to resent the act enough to dislike a book because it contains mentions of sex. The book in question points out this sexual frustration as a tool to control the masses and keep them obedient. OP doesn’t have any media literacy.
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