Why are he two greatest obscenities in the society of Brave New World birth and mother. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

In the New World, "civilization is sterilization." As
Lenina and Bernard watch the Indians at Malpais, Lenina thinks that she has never seen
anything  so "indecent" in her life.  And, to make matters worse for her, Lenina thinks,
"Bernard proceeded to make open comments on this revoltingly viviparous
scene."

"What
a wonderfully intimate relationship...And what an intensity of feeling it must
generate!"

These candid
comments of Bernard are certainly counter-culture.  For, as Mr. Foster tours the
students through the Central London Hatchery, he explains that reproduction has been
taken out of the realm and revised by taking 

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"slavish imitation of nature into the much more
interesting word of human invention....We also predestine and
condition."

Human
reproduction has been eliminated from the New World because it is obscene.  And, it is
obscene because this type of reproduction involves an intimacy between two people that
is of a passionate nature.  The intimacy of a man and woman who love each other and the
intimacy of a mother and child are not permitted to exist in the New World because such
emotional relationships and attachment can lead to problems such as unhappiness,
disease, and destruction.  Mustapha Mond, who addresses the children, reminds the
students that they have been spared all the pain and suffering caused by pre-modern
monogamy and family constraints.

In the New World, everyone
must remain content with his/her state in life.  Stability is extremely important, and
in order to have stability, the society must be controlled; no one can have any
attachments to anyone else and eugenics must be used to create the various castes and
maintain uniformity.