What's a contemporary feminist perspective on Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1968 short story "Welcome to the Monkey House"?
Kurt Vonnegut's Jr.'s short story "Welcome to the Monkey House",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_(short_story)
depicts an underground society in the future that perpetrates gang rapes on women as a kind of "psychotherapy", to bring them back to their "natural" sexual femininity. The premise is that in the twenty-second century, overpopulation has forced women into an unnatural celibacy that is contrary to their nature, and to their needs. Now, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is, I believe, in general fairly popular with feminists and liberals. So, how do they reconcile this short story with contemporary feminism? What does this perspective say about feminism and human sexuality in general? Are we already in the futuristic world that Vonnegut envisioned?
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