The Wanting Seed

I did not like this book. Written in 1962, it's a "comedy" about overpopulation and the resulting in a degradation of society: famine, reproductive control, cannibalism, and war. This is known as a Malthusian comedy, derived from the theories of population versus resources by Thomas Robert Malthus (Yes, I had to look it up, though I did remember it from high school social studies after reading a few sentences about it). I didn't find it remotely funny, not even in a satirical sense. Being nearly sixty years old, this book is full of the prejudices against race and sexuality, using them for satirical purposes, but ends up coming across as racist, sexist, and homophobic.

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