Agent provocateur
9th February 2004, 16:36
From Orwell's 1984
"Unlike Winston, she [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. The way she put it was:
'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting
with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Tree-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?'
That was very true, he [Winston Smith] thought. There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic
credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch except by
bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the party had turned it into account..."
George Orwell 1984; Book II, Chapter III
Taken form the Florida Statutes (2001)
Chapter 798
Adultery; Cohabitation
798.01 Living in open adultery.
798.02 Lewd and lascivious behavior.
798.01 Living in open adultery.----Whoever lives in an open state of adultery shall be guilty of a midemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. Where either of the parties living in an open state of adultery is married, both parties so living shall be deemed to be guilty of the offense provided for in this section.
798.02 Lewd and lascivious behavior.----If any man and woman, not being married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together, or if any man or woman, married or unmarried, engages in open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
"Unlike Winston, she [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship. The way she put it was:
'When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting
with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Tree-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?'
That was very true, he [Winston Smith] thought. There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic
credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch except by
bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the party had turned it into account..."
George Orwell 1984; Book II, Chapter III
Taken form the Florida Statutes (2001)
Chapter 798
Adultery; Cohabitation
798.01 Living in open adultery.
798.02 Lewd and lascivious behavior.
798.01 Living in open adultery.----Whoever lives in an open state of adultery shall be guilty of a midemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. Where either of the parties living in an open state of adultery is married, both parties so living shall be deemed to be guilty of the offense provided for in this section.
798.02 Lewd and lascivious behavior.----If any man and woman, not being married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together, or if any man or woman, married or unmarried, engages in open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.