Welcome to the Monkey House (short story)

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"Welcome to the Monkey House" is a Kurt Vonnegut short story that is part of the collection Welcome to the Monkey House.

The government of the world is waging a war on overpopulation by encouraging its patrons to go to Federal Ethical Suicide Parlors and voluntarily remove themselves from the world by means of "ethical" suicide. The government also wishes for sex to be pleasure-less and has society take mandatory pills that numb the body from the waist down. The pills were originally meant for use on monkeys at the zoo, so that they wouldn't do perverse things in front of the crowds, hence the title.

The protagonist is Billy the Poet, whose fame comes from deflowering the "Junoesque" virgins that run the suicide clinics. He is head of an underground society where members aim to revive pleasureful sex, and encourage birth control rather than the numbing pills. A part of this organization are women whom he has previously raped, and have learned that their life is much better with sex than without it.