Did Orwell ever talk about what he was trying to accomplish with 1984? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Some nerds were doing that thing where 40k fans are like "OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!" when it's pretty definitively not and is basically one of the only things in 40k that isn't heretical (as long as you're not doing evil slannesh shit) and it got me thinking about repression of sex under "in bad country regimes".

And a whoooooooooooooooooooooooooole fucking thing in 1984 was how liberating and humanizing it was that the author's grungy middle aged self-insert was boning a 19 year old member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, and, like... America has several thousand different Junior Anti-Sex League and I'm not sure if the USSR ever had any? Like, yeah, maybe they did, but under capitalism Americans have literally convinced themselves they'll go to hell if they see a tiddy and the English famously just hate joy. So what the fuck was Orwell trying to critique with his "Junior Anti-Sex League" in spoooooky Stalinist England?

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

where 40k fans are like “OH NO SEXZ IS HERESY!”

I read plenty of books from 40k and there's barely any sex and even romance in most of them, idk where they even get the notion, probably from furious masturbating to Sisters of Battle. Also in 40K, even slaaneshi crowd in licenced materials seems to distinctly avoid anything sexual probably to avoid age labels put on said materials.

I’m not sure if the USSR ever had any?

I could assume it came from the anti-prostitution and pro-emancipation stance of USSR, to an incel and sex pest like Orwell this was probably tantamount to being anti-sex.