In the book Brave New World, Bernard Marx's alternate Thursdays are spent at an event called "Solitary Services" these are a kind of cult meeting. In these meetings they do many things. They chant "I drink to my annihilation."and other phrases as they drink their strawberry ice-cream soma. They also sing their "Solidarity Hymn" songs. Then when the effects of soma begin to appear as Huxley states "Eyes shone, checks were flushed, the inner light of universal benevolence broke out in every face in happy"(Brave New World 63). Everyone becomes "one" in the "Orgy-Porgy" meeting.
             Huxley could have meant that sex had become a religion to the people of brave new world. Sex is how they become happy and solve their problems. In today's society a lot of people turn to religion to fill the voids in their lives and make themselves happy. John Savage tried to be "religious" by doing everything he could to fit in. He wanted so badly to be the one who got whipped saying "They could have had twice as much blood from me"(89). In brave new worlds' society "orgy-porgy" was a way of fitting in with the group. As we saw when Lenina didn't want to be promiscuous everyone around her thought there was something wrong with her. The opposite happened with Linda when she was promiscuous on the reservation she got beat up by other people on the reservation because monogamy was part of the religion on the reservation.
             Community, identity, and stability are served by "solitary service" in a couple of different ways. Community is served by "solitary service" because the service brings the "community" together with sex. Identity is served by "solitary service" because it reminds the people they belong to one another and that th
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