The “feelies” exist in Brave New World to stimulate the feelings of sex without the emotional connection. The feeling of touch is transferred to the viewer through metal knobs located on the armrests of the seats. The “feelies” are not only experienced through sight and sound but also through touch. These lessons are seen in Brave New World through movies that people go to call the “feelies”. Teens and adults who continually see these portrayals of sexual encounters may come to believe that engaging in promiscuous and premarital sex is normal and expected behavior” (“Introduction to Teenage Sexuality. Pop culture in today’s society has progressively portrayed sex as casual, guilt-free activity and turned into an “ultimate goal” of every date or relationship (Introduction to Teenage Sexuality). ![]() Teaching lessons of this nature to children teaches them to follow their superficial desires instead of personal connections. It is said that sex is a highly pervasive theme in American culture as television commercials and programs regularly show sexualized images of men’s and women’s bodies with the insinuation that these visually desirable people will fulfill the viewer’s’ fantasies (“Introduction to Teenage Sexuality’). As society evolves and children become more influenced by celebrities and social media to act and look a certain way, children grow up faster possess twisted morals. ![]() ![]() To many-imagining the world where children are encouraged to engage their peers sexually is quite sickening, but with the way society is headed, it does not seem to deviate from today’s norms. The children in Brave New World are encouraged to participate in erotic play they are conditioned at a young age to stay away from emotional bonding and view everyone as their personal property. However, a more accurate view of that issue is that as society progressively shifts into a culture where values and morals are based on social media and pop culture, children begin to lose their innocence at a younger age similarly to the fictional children in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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