The cure for all society’s problems is for people to have frequent orgasms. At least that was the claim of Austrian psychoanalyst, Wilhelm Reich, in 1940 when he created a sex box dubbed the ‘Orgone’.

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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!

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 ...

Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich fell out with Freud, led the 'sexual revolution' and became a hippie icon. As a new book about him comes out, Neil Armstrong explores his life and legacy. These were the ...

Lewis Jones is moderately excited by Adventures in the Orgasmatron, an exhaustive biography of Wilhelm Reich, the charismatic, comic, sinister so-called father of the sexual revolution. When Sigmund ...

A rich American woman with a dog called Climax, and Freud keeping his jaw open with the help of a clothes peg in order to smoke cigars after the cancerous roof of his mouth had been surgically removed ...