Sex on campus: It’s a brave new world
In Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel "Brave New World," sex is nothing more than a conditioned, physical interaction between two consenting adults. People are pre-conditioned from a young age to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else," and concepts like commitment and monogamy are virtually nonexistent. Sex is completely divorced from procreation; babies are "decanted" in laboratories and are raised by the State. All of this is the result of an elaborate system of social conditioning that begins, in most cases, before the age of reason. Sex is so stripped of its inherent meaning that even desire for sex has to be cultivated through things like the drug soma, sex-hormone chewing gum, and the "feelies," which are essentially pornographic films viewed in theaters.
Today, in 2016, it seems that social conditioning in our entertainment, academia, and even our government is putting our society on a path toward a brave new world all our own. Nowhere is this clearer than on our college campuses. The hook-up culture that is prominent on so many campuses has all but supplanted traditional dating mores. Fewer students are going on actual dates, and more are hooking up at parties, often with alcohol involved. Students are "conditioned" through music, movies, and television to think that hook-ups are fun, pleasurable, and free from consequences.
