The Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich was so convinced of the curative properties of orgone (a “cosmic-energy” life force he “discovered” and named), that he developed a device known as the orgone ...

Mistakes were made. This is both a universal epitaph and the realist's philosophy of history. Error is as much the motivation as the outcome of human action - we ...

James Bond tried one. So, too, did writers Jack (On The Road) Kerouac and J.D. (Catcher In The Rye) Salinger. The artist who created Shrek swore by his, and spent half an hour inside it at least once ...

You've heard of orgone right? You know, "a massless, omnipresent substance, similar to luminiferous aether, but more closely associated with living energy than inert matter..." that can, "coalesce to ...

It is a goatish résumé, and it suggests a satyr of a figure. Yet the Galileo of the orgasm, as Reich thought of himself, could also be something of a grumpy old man. “Now, that is a sexual revolution!

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Now historians at the Wellcome Collection have recreated, at their “Institute of Sexology”, the very box which inspired the Orgasmatron in Woody Allen’s futuristic comedy Sleeper, the Excessive ...

Editor's note: We routinely write about a machine that goes bing! to let you know about the latest medical technology available. For this issue, though, we're going back in time and taking a look at ...