Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: May 22, 2020 04:42PM
blindguy Wrote:
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> He viewed sex education as
> something to oppose, not support, and this is why,
> he views the sexual experimentation in the book's
> first chapter negatively. As I've aged, I've come
> to view sexual behavior as being a regular part of
> human behavior, and I have come around to the view
> that young people *should* be encouraged to
> sexually experiment with each other so that they
> can more easily learn the difference between sex
> (a feeling of immense pleasure) and love (which
> involves doing things for somebody else that you
> would not ordinarily do because you care for
> them).
I don't know how true that is, but nonetheless, I believe in sexual experimentation as a good thing, albeit playing with fire to learn how to handle that too.
"On the other hand, he not only wrote about group sex in Brave New World, but he maintained an open relationship with his wife Maria. He was even happy for her to become a member of the "sewing circle", a club for lesbians in Hollywood, which supposedly also boasted Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo as members. The otherwise abstemious Huxley also became one of the world's first psychonauts: an early experimenter with LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs during the early 1950s, and a trailblazer who had a huge impact on the 1960s "revolution in the head"."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4TQhTRDcHw1V0YhbtL600BJ/sex-drugs-and-aldous-huxley