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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