In 1940 Wilhelm Reich had constructed his first “accumulator.” This contraption consisted of a box insulated alternately with organic and inorganic substances.
Lack of the right hormones, Starvation, and age do the same thing. Then you have heart issues that scare people. Or meds reduce the ability. Not to mention couples use withholding sex relations as punishment. Or the partner is a drunk, vicious SOB abusive person, caring for only their pleasure. Rape is about POWER, castrate the offender they will use an object. It can't be cured. It is only 1 of the many crimes that get plea-bargained away. Or like Memphis just doesn't process rape kits for decades. Memphis thinks it is its own State, and TN state laws don't apply to them.
Thank you for another really informative article. Is that where the Cosmo Kramer character came from? He looks just like him lol. It's bad enough he poisoned the public and the vegetation with the radium in his orgone box. But if he did to kids what Kinsey did he belonged in prison. Even if he wasn't a pedo, he layed the groundwork for normalizing child sex abuse. Too bad Kinsey got away with it.
"Reich was one of Freud’s circle but was expelled not least because of his ‘sex-pol’ work - - counselling which put working class sexual problems in their social context - - which also got him thrown out of the communist party. Nowadays he may be more famous for his later theories of energy and the resulting devices which he claimed could treat cancer or make rain in the desert. Supposedly his orgone accumulator was the inspiration for the orgasmatron in Woody Allen’s Sleeper. Whatever you make of this later work, it’s unsettling that, having escaped Nazi Europe, his books were burned by court order in the USA, and that he was then imprisoned for his work and died in jail. When evaluating one of his devices, the FDA didn’t try to reproduce the experiments on which his claims were based: to be ‘completely objective’ - - read, avoid threatening their groupthink - - they decided not to read the publications."
WR requires constant exposure for what he was and all the bad he did - good and important work.
What is with Germans and their hair?! 🤣
"Orgone power" makes me think of Dildano and the hypersex scene in Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy
Reich was a fascinating crank IMO. He inspired some writing by William Burroughs, and this fantastic song by Hawkwind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Ve4rrnfz0
Lack of the right hormones, Starvation, and age do the same thing. Then you have heart issues that scare people. Or meds reduce the ability. Not to mention couples use withholding sex relations as punishment. Or the partner is a drunk, vicious SOB abusive person, caring for only their pleasure. Rape is about POWER, castrate the offender they will use an object. It can't be cured. It is only 1 of the many crimes that get plea-bargained away. Or like Memphis just doesn't process rape kits for decades. Memphis thinks it is its own State, and TN state laws don't apply to them.
Thank you for another really informative article. Is that where the Cosmo Kramer character came from? He looks just like him lol. It's bad enough he poisoned the public and the vegetation with the radium in his orgone box. But if he did to kids what Kinsey did he belonged in prison. Even if he wasn't a pedo, he layed the groundwork for normalizing child sex abuse. Too bad Kinsey got away with it.
"Reich was one of Freud’s circle but was expelled not least because of his ‘sex-pol’ work - - counselling which put working class sexual problems in their social context - - which also got him thrown out of the communist party. Nowadays he may be more famous for his later theories of energy and the resulting devices which he claimed could treat cancer or make rain in the desert. Supposedly his orgone accumulator was the inspiration for the orgasmatron in Woody Allen’s Sleeper. Whatever you make of this later work, it’s unsettling that, having escaped Nazi Europe, his books were burned by court order in the USA, and that he was then imprisoned for his work and died in jail. When evaluating one of his devices, the FDA didn’t try to reproduce the experiments on which his claims were based: to be ‘completely objective’ - - read, avoid threatening their groupthink - - they decided not to read the publications."
Neal Alexander https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/150920.Fury_On_Earth