control is more than just force

Sex is used as a method of control because the condition people as children to believe it is nothing more than something for pleasure. By letting them play ‘erotic games’ they leave them believing that the only point is for fun. It is there for a man to have a woman. (im sure this is where dooley is going to go into the fact that this book is sexist. Which it is, but I think it helps the book have meaning. But I am also sure we will talk about this in class) By letting them believe this, they will no longer have the desire to have sex to reproduce. They condition the women to take contraceptives without even thinking, to control their reproduction. They also let them believe it to be unethical to become pregnant, and be a mother.
Games control people because they are made so complex, so that they are more expensive and cause more consumption. The soul purpose of recreation is to enhance consumption.
The same goes for phrases like ending is better than mending. If they throw their clothes away, they have to buy new ones, and then they are not wasting time.
Also something while I am on the issue of time, one of the ‘best’ I guess you could say, lines is when Lenina asks what time if for if not for wasting. I’m sure there are plenty of quotes that professional literary analyzers will pull out to summarize the novel, but this is what I would say summarizes it perfectly. Everything they do is to waste time. They don’t really do anything. They don’t even really think. They just think prethought thoughts. Bernard has some of his own thoughts, but that is what hurts him in the end. When he tries to get Lenina to think the same things he does, she gets scared and upset and has to repeat her prethought thoughts, and take soma.
Also soma was one of the main things that controlled them. First I just thought it was something they there just conditioned to take so they didn’t have to deal with reality, even their reality. Then I realized it was a religion substitute. Weirdest thing ever. Except its really not the weirdest thing ever because it pretty much is the same thing is religion. But again I’m sure we will talk about this in class.