Christopher Turner

Adventures in the Orgasmatron (eBook, ePUB)

How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011

Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's story-an illuminating, thrilling, often bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression.

Central to the narrative is the orgone box-a tall, slender construction of wood, metal, and steel wool. A person who sat in the box, it was thought, could elevate his or her "orgastic potential." The box was the invention of Wilhelm Reich, an outrider psychoanalyst who faced a federal ban on the orgone box, an FBI investigation, a fraught encounter with Einstein, and bouts of paranoia.

In Turner's vivid account, Reich's efforts anticipated those of Alfred Kinsey, Herbert Marcuse, and other prominent thinkers-efforts that brought about a transformation of Western views of sexuality in ways even the thinkers themselves could not have imagined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429967488
• Artikelnr.: 39953633