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Old December 25th 07, 06:42 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
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Default Ever hear of William Kohler?

possible. His sexual life, for example, was entirely regulated by
the two Newspeak words sexcrime (sexual immorality) and goodsex (chastity).
Sexcrime covered all sexual misdeeds whatever. It covered fornication,
adultery, homosexuality, and other perversions, and, in addition, normal
intercourse practised for its own sake. There was no need to enumerate them
separately, since they were all equally culpable, and, in principle, all
punishable by death. In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and
technical words, it might be necessary to give specialized names to certain
sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them. He knew
what was meant by goodsex -- that is to say, normal intercourse between man
and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children, and without physical
pleasure on the part of the woman: all else was sexcrime. In Newspeak it
was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the
perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words
were nonexistent.
No word in the B vocabulary was ideological