Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories
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What happens when Bill doesn;t take pills and what are they for
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Billy the Poet is a "nothinghead," meaning he has not been taking his ethical birth control pills, and hence enjoys sex (30). Because the world is so overpopulated, the World Government has required all citizens to take the pills - which make sex pleasureless - in order to dissuade unnecessary reproduction.
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