"'Why don't you just go and take him wether he wants it or no" (Huxely 192).
In this novel, Brave New World, when you want to have somebody usually this is very casual and easy to obtain. When a person doesn't want to have someone it is socially acceptable to have that person by force and this is due to their culture they live in. This can be a benefit because even if this happens no one has to feel bad, or awkward, about the incident. On the contrary, making rape so easily obtainable and not against any laws, because erotic play is a social norm, can be the cause of something that may scar someone for their life and no one would ever help them. Furthermore, their body would be defiled, and they would have no comfort no matter where they looked. In relation, this leads to the other social norm for their consumer culture of drugs, soma, which the victim of rape would most likely take regularly, so they would not have to think about it ever. To tie it all together, the consumer culture allows rape to be accepted; this may be good because on one hand no one would feel bad, if the victim is on soma. However, the victim is being defiled and this consumer culture allows the meaning of life to lower by making it accebtable for people to rape others and others to be raped.
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