Adventures in the Orgasmatron - Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex

After World War Two, Reich''s theories caught on among writers and artists, the early adopters of the counter-culture. Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow were amongst those for whom the orgone box represented a yearned-for synthesis of sexual and political liberation, and of physical science and psychology. Meanwhile, Reich himself faced one debacle after another. Albert Einstein heard him out before rebuffing him. The FBI investigated him as a Communist sympathizer: it turned out that they were hunting the wrong man. The federal government banned the orgone box and tagged Reich as a fraud. There were claims of sexual misdeeds, and bouts of Reich''s own mental instability. This is the story of the blossoming of the 20th century''s sexual revolution, and the unshackling of a repressed society, and sex before science.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Turner, Turner Christopher
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2011
• EAN: 9780007181575
• ISBN: 978-0-00-718157-5
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 37 mm