Editing George Orwell (section)

=== Sexuality ===
Sexual politics plays an important role in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. In the novel, people's intimate relationships are strictly governed by the party's [[Nineteen Eighty-Four#Sexual repression|Junior Anti-Sex League]], by opposing sexual relations and instead encouraging [[artificial insemination]].<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/095892300102452 "We are the dead ... you are the dead". An examination of sexuality as a weapon of revolt in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four]. ''Journal of Gender Studies''. Retrieved 21 December 2018</ref> Personally, Orwell disliked what he thought as misguided middle-class revolutionary [[Emancipation|emancipatory]] views, expressing disdain for "every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniacs".<ref>[https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/nineteen-eighty-four-and-the-politics-of-dystopia "Nineteen Eighty-Four and the politics of dystopia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308004754/https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/nineteen-eighty-four-and-the-politics-of-dystopia|date=8 March 2021}}. British Library. Retrieved 21 December 2018</ref>

Orwell was also openly against [[homosexuality]]. [[Daphne Patai]] said: "Of course he was homophobic. That has nothing to do with his relations with his homosexual friends. Certainly, he had a negative attitude and a certain kind of anxiety, a denigrating attitude towards homosexuality. That is definitely the case. I think his writing reflects that quite fully."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rodden |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlnwITCGcw8C&pg=PA162 |title=Every Intellectual's Big Brother: George Orwell's Literary Siblings |date=2006 |publisher=University of Texas Press, Austin |isbn=978-0292774537 |page=162}}</ref>

Orwell used the [[homophobic]] [[epithet]]s "nancy" and "pansy", for example, in expressions of contempt for what he called the "pansy Left".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sharp |first1=Tony |title=W H Auden in Context |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=95}}</ref> The protagonist of ''Keep the Aspidistra Flying'', Gordon Comstock, conducts an internal critique of his customers when working in a bookshop, and there is an extended passage of several pages in which he concentrates on a homosexual male customer, and sneers at him for his "nancy" characteristics, including a [[lisp]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Orwell |first1=George |url=https://archive.org/details/keepaspidistrafl0000orwe |title=Keep The Aspidistra Flying |publisher=Secker & Warburg |year=1987 |isbn=9780436350269 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Stephen Spender "thought Orwell's occasional homophobic outbursts were part of his rebellion against the public school".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bowker |first1=Gordon |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312238414 |title=George Orwell |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2003 |isbn=978-0312238414 |url-access=registration}}</ref>