were called Baal, Osiris, Moloch, Ashtaroth, and the like:
probably the less he knew about them the better for his orthodoxy. He knew
Jehovah and the commandments of Jehovah: he knew, therefore, that all gods
with other names or other attributes were false gods. In somewhat the same
way, the party member knew what constituted right conduct, and in
exceedingly vague, generalized terms he knew what kinds of departure from
it were possible. His sexual life, for example, was entirely regulated by
the two Newspeak words sexcrime (sexual immorality) and goodsex (chastity).
Sexcrime covered all sexual misdeeds whatever. It covered fornication,
adultery, homosexuality, and other perversions, and, in addition, normal
intercourse practised for its own sake. There was no need to enumerate them
separately, since they were all equally culpable, and, in principle, all
punishable by death. In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and
technical words, it might be necessary to give specialized names to certain
sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them. He knew
what was meant by goodsex -- that is to say, nor
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