In context, I thought that it was only date rape. More specifically, you could only rape somebody who had been leading you on. And they regularly discuss paying for sex, so it’s not just free for the taking. ETA: Not to mention the rape in the epilogue, which is described as horrible.
Hmm. Well, if any date can end in rape, and this is somehow enforceable, then this is a lot more practical, although it still requires a 100% ultra-kinky population, otherwise the non-kinky people would not be able to interact with the opposite sex.
Did they embark on some sort of mass genetic or social engineering program to make everyone kinky?
I don’t know; that whole world is pretty kinky by our standards, but that might just be Eliezer’s attempt to show that the future will have values strange to us, rather than something with a specific reason.
In context, I thought that it was only date rape. More specifically, you could only rape somebody who had been leading you on. And they regularly discuss paying for sex, so it’s not just free for the taking. ETA: Not to mention the rape in the epilogue, which is described as horrible.
Hmm. Well, if any date can end in rape, and this is somehow enforceable, then this is a lot more practical, although it still requires a 100% ultra-kinky population, otherwise the non-kinky people would not be able to interact with the opposite sex.
Did they embark on some sort of mass genetic or social engineering program to make everyone kinky?
I don’t know; that whole world is pretty kinky by our standards, but that might just be Eliezer’s attempt to show that the future will have values strange to us, rather than something with a specific reason.