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The pleasure principle
Turner, Christopher http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/08/wilhelm-reich-free-love-orgasmatron
Publisher: Guardian Weekly
Date Written: 12/08/2011
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Wilhelm Reich invented 'the Orgasmatron' and claimed that better orgasms could cure society. Then the FBI got involved.
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Reich could be said to have invented this "sexual revolution"; a Marxist analyst, he coined the phrase in the 1930s in order to illustrate his belief that a true political revolution would be possible only one sexual repression was overthrown.
In creating a morality out of pleasure, Reich allowed postwar radicals to view their promiscuity as political activism and justify their retreat from traditional politics.
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