In our society, men strive to have sex because of the feelings they get from the experience. It feels good, like a nice, cold piña colada on a warm beach. If you took away the feelings of sex, there would be a great loss of incentive to do it. People would not want to have sex for the sake of it anymore. They would only do it if they had to.
They would be disappointed like this gray man in a gray suit. The color gray is so... disappointing!
In the Handmaid's Tale, the society has become desensitized to sex. The men are turning down on sex as much as they can, because they only see it as a way to maintain their status in their society or government. If they need to stay in a position or move to a higher status, they use sex as a tool. They don't see it as a means to obtain pleasure or connect with the one they love. Feelings such as love have become eradicated in this culture and sex is meaningless. This eventually emotionally neuters the whole society of men.
Sex is not the only thing that people have become emotionally neutered to in this society. They also find an inability to feel during the particicutions and the picking off on peers. People are being ripped apart right in front of their eyes and they still look on and do nothing. It happens so often that it becomes routine and, in a sense, they become numb to the experience. Like for example, the gladiators of ancient times. The people of Rome saw lions eating people alive. It was literally murder, yet they didn't do anything to stop it. It is because it happened so often that people stopped thinking about what was wrong and what was right and they just looked on cheering with a hollow mind.
Everything wrong that is happening around the people in this society have just become regular. The only feeling people really have is now just numbness. This suggests that people have just stopped trying to do anything to change their bad situation.
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