Nick and June's reunion is sexy as all hell. All of the spoiling will happen after the video below. Scroll down at your own peril. The Handmaid's Tale has always had a difficult relationship with sex , intentionally so. What happens month after month to Offred and the other handmaids is systematic, institutionalised rape. In the society of Gilead sex exists purely for the purposes of procreation. It is clinical and imbued with all sorts of religious overtones. No sex for any reason other than "biological destiny", basically. Outside of the 'ceremony' formerly known as rape, the women of Gilead are taught to be sexless. They pin up their hair, they cover their bodies, they keep their eyes downcast and act meek at all times.

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Skip navigation! Story from TV Shows. Elena Nicolaou. The first scene was the mass wedding. In the episode, Nick Max Minghella consummates his marriage with Eden Sydney Sweeney , the vehemently pious year-old he was forced to marry during the Prayvaganza ceremony. If it makes you feel better, Sydney Sweeney is 20 in real life. Nick, still wearing a white tank top, positions his body over the hole in the sheet. Clearly, the Sons of Jacob have been scarily successful in indoctrinating Americans — or, more specifically, young former Americans — to accept a new set of social mores. Serena Waterford Yvonne Strahovski second-guesses her role in shaping Gilead every time she stares longingly at a pen. Commander Fred Joe Fiennes reveals his hypocrisy each time he visits June for a midnight tryst.
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