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Essay / The importance of sexualism in The Handmaid's Tale
In Never Let Me Go, the community of Hailsham is a society within a society because the people are clones. Their population doesn't really thrive because people limit themselves to being clones, which prevents them from being able to have sex for pleasure, emotion, and intimacy. In The Handmaid's Tale, the people rebel. Often in a real society, people rebel, which causes the society to collapse. The biggest difference between the two books is that in Never Let Me Go, sex is described as beautiful and a physical need, but it is also seen in a negative light. On the other hand, in The Handmaid's Tale, the sexual act for handmaids is presented as only a matter of reproduction and women's bodies are enormously exploited. The biggest similarity seen in these books is that the sexual act with love, emotion and intimacy is restricted. Sex is not about pleasure in either society. These two books warn our society that sex, emotions, pleasure and intimacy are becoming robotic in our world. We should make an effort to monitor what is happening in our own world. By ensuring that sex becomes robotic in our world, we can stop it before it even happens. Since both of these dystopian societies are aware of the fact that sex is not about pleasure/love, they are warning our society today that, unfortunately, if we are not careful, our society could end up becoming robotic in the sexual act. emotion, intimacy and pleasure. It is our responsibility to ensure that every action we take in this world is filled with emotion and intimacy, so that our society does not collapse without the elements that truly make up the essence of our humanity. Without emotions, without intimacy and without sex for pleasure, no world can truly flourish and prosper because the act of sex for pleasure,