Epsilons are assured to be inferior because they are poisoned as fetuses. Everyone is produced in a lab. In fact, it is so taboo to have babies the natural way that it doesn t happen in civilized society anymore. Contraceptives are used without deviance, and abortion is practiced widely. The difference of reaction when these two terms are met shows sexism within the society.
Sex is a casual pastime and everyone is extremely promiscuous.
This causes women to be looked upon as objects more then humans. Looks are very important. The most stressed method of conditioning throughout the book is hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching. A recording of the lesson to be learned is repeated over and over while they sleep. The students hear it so many times that it becomes a truth to them.