d on like this with one man. At forty, or thirty-five it wouldn't be so bad. But at your age, Lenina! No, it really won't do. And you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn. Found months of Henry Foster, without having another man-why, he'd be furious if he only knew..."
             Lenina gets scolded for being with Foster for so long, so after that she decides to move on and go for Bernard Marx. People think he is an odd ball, but Lenina doesn't mind. Bernard was very uneasy around Lenina, so she suggested him to take soma. After he took it, he took one hand off the controls to put his arm on her breast to show that he was feeling much more comfortable, and Lenina was much happier at that moment, because Marx was acting like a normal person would in the Brave New World society. If you are feeling sexually frustrated, there is a sex hormone chewing gum, and it is an artificial way of getting instant sexual gratification (Glossary pg. 4). In the book, it seems like everything comes back to drugs and sex. There is a drug called Violent Passion Surrogate (V.P.S) it is a chemical intended to give the body the psychological experience of having had a normal sexual relations.
             Drugs play a big part in happiness is Brave New World, people do not function with out the use of soma. Soma can be described in this quote from Brave New World
             "Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as
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