Casual Sex

 Section two of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go was absolutely covered with talk of sex.  It caught me by surprise when Kathy suddenly went from childhood memories to paragraph-long rambling about nothing but sex.  There wasn't much of a transition between innocent adolescence and hormonal teenagers!  It was the casualness and nonchalance about it that really got to me.  The pre-teens at Hailsham were taught about sex as though it were a science or like a hobby, and not something deeply precious.  Kathy herself stated that, in regards to sex, "it would be just as well to practice first with a boy [she] didn't care about too much" (Ishiguro, 98).  All of the students are so casual about having sex with whoever they want.  I guess the fact that they can't get pregnant is, for many of them, all the more reason to have sex.  If they knew there would be no consequences, what's to stop them?  The only reason most of the students, including Kathy, were e en having sex was because they felt like they just needed to.  It was something that they just kind of wanted to get over with!  I personally just can't imagine being that callous about something like that.