Intimacy in 1984 by Lucas Wedemeyer https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1 en-us 2019-11-15 19:02:09 UTC 2019-11-21 19:08:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f346.png wedemeyer_lucas https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412002837 ”A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips” (Orwell 13).]]> 2019-11-15 19:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412002837 fredericks_aidan https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412005913 “The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it” (Orwell 84).]]> 2019-11-15 19:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412005913 wedemeyer_lucas https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412006391 ”Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema. This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member from childhood onwards. There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League, which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes” (Orwell 84).]]> 2019-11-15 19:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412006391 fredericks_aidan https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412006515 “As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength. The rigidity of her muscles managed to convey that impression. She would lie there with shut eyes, neither resisting nor co-operating but SUBMITTING” (Orwell 85).]]> 2019-11-15 19:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412006515 fredericks_aidan https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412007194 ‘It’s“ this bloody thing that does it,’ she said, ripping off
the scarlet sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League and flinging it on to a bough” (Orwell 153).
]]> 2019-11-15 19:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412007194 wedemeyer_lucas https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008008 “‘When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?”  (Orwell 167)]]> 2019-11-15 19:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008008 fredericks_aidan https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008098 ”The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood. The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children, in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately” (Orwell 158).]]> 2019-11-15 19:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008098 fredericks_aidan https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008628 “He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert” (Orwell 306).]]> 2019-11-15 19:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008628 wedemeyer_lucas https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008767 “Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act” (Orwell 159).]]> 2019-11-15 19:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412008767 wedemeyer_lucas https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412009476 ”His sexual life, for example, was entirely regulated by the two Newspeak words SEXCRIME (sexual immorality) and GOODSEX (chastity). SEXCRIME covered all sexual misdeeds whatever. It covered fornication, adultery, homosexuality, and other perversions, and, in addition, normal intercourse practised for its own sake” (Orwell 384).]]> 2019-11-15 19:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wedemeyer_lucas/wf7nmm5qh4g1/wish/412009476