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With climate catastrophe and pandemic making prolonged intimacy more difficult, flesh clubs appear to facilitate sexual congress and experimentation. There are flesh clubs all over both urban and rural areas, and people of all different classes—from scavengers like Margo and the narrator to high-ranking senators like Juliet—frequent them. The flesh clubs encourage orgies, public sex, and the use of sensitivity-heightening drugs.
Flesh Club Quotes in Things We Didn’t See Coming
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The Forest for the Trees
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The reason Juliet chose us, it turned out, is we're heterosexual. Voters are fine about ignoring her personal life, to a point. Since the various media outlets forced them to read endlessly about her night crawls, which usually involves some variation of the women we danced through to get to her, they want variety of gender. In the first month, she dressed me up in rubber and had me fuck her on the main stage of just about every flesh club in her constituency—the million-dollar landscaped one in the cities and the back-road barns in the country. […] In the old days, the candidate had to eat a lot of doughnuts to get their message through, but Juliet 's calculations about the addition of us to her entourage were correct.
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Flesh Club Term Timeline in Things We Didn’t See Coming
The timeline below shows where the term Flesh Club appears in Things We Didn’t See Coming. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Forest for the Trees
...more for her sense of fairness than for his desires. The couple went to a flesh club together, and the narrator had spotted Juliet, dancing with a group of women. He recognized...
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...Juliet, who was thrilled by the dynamic. Soon enough, they made their way from the flesh club to Juliet’s apartment, where she offered both Margo and the narrator jobs (“she’s a pro...
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...In fact, Juliet had made the narrator have sex with her at most of the flesh clubs in the vicinity, showing off her new male hire (and sleeping with Margo more privately).
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...is driving like he’s in a video game. The narrator considers bringing Jeph to a flesh club or the markets, but he decides to steer them straight to the clinic.
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