New at Reason: Brendan O'Neill on How the British Nanny State Criminalized "Excessively Noisy Sex"

May 11, 2009

In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a Junior Anti-Sex League that spied on kissing and cavorting adults, and a ruling Party that sought to squash the "sex impulse." But as Brendan O'Neill writes, it turns out that Orwell was suffering from premature speculation. It was not in 1984 that a major Western government made the "sex impulse" into a police matter; it was in 2009. In the U.K., O'Neill notes, we now have the bizarre and terrifying situation where a woman has been arrested for having sex too loudly.

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