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’.

RANGELEY, Maine – Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books ...

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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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...