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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''The World Inside''' is a 1971 novel by [[Robert Silverberg]]. <br />
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Told from the perspective of a male character, the story explores the life of 24th century humans who live in giant, crowded skyscrapers. Because they live in such crowded circumstances, a ritual non-monogamous wife swapping is socially enforced--female [[consensual sex|consent]] has been criminalized, and all women are required to assent to sex when asked. <br />
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* For the opposite take on crowding, [[jealousy]], and monogamy, see --? novel in which human crowding in closed environment spaceships creates an elaborate regime of social levels for achieving intimacy; the male protagonist eventually leaves the spaceship with a woman who has unaccountably taken an interest in him, and they re-settle Earth.) <br />
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* For an even more nightmarish view of futuristic overcrowding in giant apartment buildings, see [[Sheri S. Tepper]]'s novels ''[[Beauty]]'' and ''[[The Companions]]''<br />
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