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Stories of governments banning all sex are strange when looked at from a gay perspective. Some forms of consensual sex are banned in oppressive regimes, but those regimes tend to prioritize other means of sex. Attempts to ban gay sex often come with emphasis on married straight reproduction. Attempts to ban interracial sex tend to come with an attempt to emphasize reproduction among the governmentally favored race. These are an attempt to tell a painful and political story while removing the real world pain and politics and the groups that are deemed political. These are never stories that try to call to Mildred and Richard Loving or John Geddes Lawrence Jr. and Tyron Garner, because that’s a different genre. These are instead stories of a YA rebellion where no reader will have any chance of feeling challenged by the ideas.
Also this plot is weird because as a test tube baby born the year it came out, I understand it was radically new technology but it’s definitely a wtf situation
Check out Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed
"Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious."