Adventures in the orgasmatron: how the sexual revolution came to America

Adventures in the orgasmatron: how the sexual revolution came to America

Author
Reich, WilhelmReich, WilhelmTurner, Christopher
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Edition
First edition
Year
2011
Page
532 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations
ISBN
9781429967488,142996748X
File Type
epub
File Size
2.0 MiB

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011

Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story—an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Central to the narrative is the orgone box—a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential." The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia.

In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers—efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.

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