"...sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship...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...There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, 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 to account." Orwell, 1984
