Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America

by Turner, Christopher

  38. Myron Sharaf, “The Trial of Wilhelm Reich,” in Wilhelm Reich Memorial Volume, ed. Paul Ritter (Nottingham, U.K.: Ritter Press, 1958), 69.

  39. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 178.

  40. Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951–1956; Orop Desert Ea, 1954–1955 (New York: Core Pilot, 1957), 1.

  41. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 179–80.

  42. Myron Sharaf, “The Sentencing of WR, Silvert, and the WRF,” May 27, 1956, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

  43. Ibid.

  44. Ibid.

  45. Greenfield, Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A., 224–25.

  46. Ibid., 226.

  47. Letter from Mildred Brady to John Cain, May 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

  48. Peter Reich, A Book of Dreams (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), 53.

  49. Ibid., 57.

  50. Inspector’s report, June 7, 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

  51. Ibid.

  52. Ibid.

  53. Dwight D. Eisenhower, address at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953, “The President Speaks,” Library Journal 78 (July 1953): 1206.

  54. Inspector’s report, August 23, 1956, FDA files, National Library of Medicine.

  55. 1956 diary, Wilhelm Reich Papers, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

  56. Ibid.

  57. Courtney Baker, author interview, March 2005.

  58. Reich to Hoover, February 14, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

  59. Reich to Hoover, February 16, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

  60. February 25, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

  61. February 18, 1957, Wilhelm Reich’s FBI file.

  62. Reich to Eisenhower, February 23, 1957, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

  63. Greenfield, Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A., 262–63.

  64. Ibid.

  65. Sharaf, Fury on Earth, 471.

  66. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 195.

  67. Greenfield, Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A., 264.

  68. Wilhelm Reich’s Prison File, Steamshovel Press no. 6, St. Louis, Mo.

  69. Tony Hiss, The View from Alger’s Window: A Son’s Memoir (New York: Knopf, 1999), 31.

  70. Ibid., 65.

  71. “Tail-Gunner Joe Meets Cockyboo the Clown,” Flatland Magazine, November 12, 1995, 36–40.

  72. Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen, Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2004), 96.

  73. Harvey Matusow, “The Death of Wilhelm Reich,” chapter 14 of his unpublished autobiography, “The Stringless Yo Yo,” Harvey Matusow Archive, University of Sussex (U.K.) Library Special Collections.

  74. Ibid.

  75. “My Unlawful Imprisonment,” Wilhelm Reich’s prison file.

  76. Cohen and Lichtman, Deadly Farce, 153.

  77. Ollendorff, Wilhelm Reich, 196.

  78. Matusow, “Stringless Yo Yo.”

  79. Wilhelm Reich’s prison file.

  80. Time, November 18, 1957.

  81. Charles Oller, “At Reich’s Funeral,” November 6, 1957, Aurora Karrer Reich Collection, National Library of Medicine.

  82. Ibid.

  83. Baker, “My Eleven Years with Reich” (part 17), Journal of Orgonomy 18, no. 2 (1984): 169.

  Thirteen

  1. Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), 328–29.

  2. Norman Mailer to Kenneth Tynan, 1972, Tynan Archive, British Library, London.

  3. Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, 347.

  4. Ibid., 347.

  5. Norman Mailer, author interview, June 2007.

  6. Dan Wakefield, New York in the Fifties (Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992), 241.

  7. Ibid., 221.

  8. Roger Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (San Francisco: Encounter, 2000), 155.

  9. Hilary Mills, Mailer: A Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984), 190.

  10. O. Spurgeon English, “Some Recollections of a Psychoanalysis with Wilhelm Reich: September 1929–April 1932,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 5, no. 2 (1977): 252.

  11. Jerome Greenfield, Wilhelm Reich vs. the U.S.A. (New York: Norton, 1974), 274.

  12. Malcolm Muggeridge, Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes (London: Collins, 1966), 46.

  13. Ted Morgan, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Random House, 2003), 561.

  14. “Morals: Second Sexual Revolution,” Time, January 24, 1964.

  15. Elsworth Baker, “Orgonomy: The Years after Reich,” Journal of Orgonomy 20, no. 1 (1986): 17.

  16. Orson Bean, author interview, December 2005.

  17. Elsworth F. Baker and Charles Konia, Man in the Trap (Princeton, N.J.: American College of Orgonomy, 2000), xvi.

  18. Jefferson Poland and Sam Sloan, Sex Marchers (Los Angeles: Elysium, 1968). By 1976, Poland was offering child care for those attending the league’s Saturday night orgies. “This project,” it was claimed in a newsletter, “is intended as a small step towards helping children be free.” When I tried to track Poland down for an interview I discovered that he’d served five years in jail in the 1980s for sexually abusing one of the children in his charge. He’d tried to castrate himself in prison and on his release was prescribed regular injections of female hormones to depress his libido. See www.meganslaw.ca.gov and Nikki Craft, “Jefferson Clitlick Freedom Poland: Convicted Naturist Pedophile” (www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Clitlick.html).

  19. Baker and Konia, Man in the Trap, xvii.

  20. Ibid., 14–16.

  21. Paul Goodman, Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman (New York: Free Life Editions, 1977), 85.

  22. Ibid., xxiii.

  23. Frederick S. Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim (Lafayette, Calif.: Real People, 1969), 214.

  24. Frederick S. Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail (New York: Bantam Books, 1969), 145.

  25. Martin Shepard, Fritz (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), 159.

  26. Jack Gaines, Fritz Perls: Here and Now (New York: Celestial Arts, 1979), 216–17.

  27. Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail, 99.

  28. Petruska Clarkson and Jennifer Mackewn, Fritz Perls (London: Sage, 1993), 135.

  29. Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail, 35.

  30. Shepard, Fritz, 3.

  31. Dan Greenburg, “My First Orgy,” in The Twentieth Anniversary Playboy Reader, ed. Hugh M. Hefner (Chicago: Playboy, 1974), 610.

  32. Gaines, Fritz Perls, 148.

  33. Martin Shepard, Fritz: An Intimate Portrait of Fritz Perls and Gestalt Therapy (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975), xv.

  34. Leo E. Litwak, “A Trip to Esalen Institute—Joy Is the Prize,” The New York Times Magazine, December 31, 1967.

  35. Ibid., 161.

  36. Perls, In and Out the Garbage Pail, 102.

  37. Gaines, Fritz Perls, 337.

  38. Shepard, Fritz, 192.

  39. Sam Keen and John Raser, “A Conversation with Herbert Marcuse: Revolutionary Eroticism, the Tactics of Terror, the Young, Psychotherapy, the Environment, Technology, Reich,” Psychology Today, February 1971.

  40. Herbert Marcuse and Douglas Kellner, Towards a Critical Theory of Society (New York: Routledge, 2001), 98.

  41. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (London: Routledge, 2002), 76.

  42. David Allyn, Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, an Unfettered History (New York: Routledge, 2001), 196–97.

  43. Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (New York: David McKay, 1957), 31.

  44. Ibid., 7.

  45. Ibid., 266.

  46. Ibid., 31.

  47. Betty Friedan would criticize Dichter for stereotyping women in “The Sexual Sell,” a chapter of The Feminine Mystique (Ne
w York: Norton, 1963).

  48. Daniel Horowitz, “The Birth of a Salesman: Ernest Dichter and the Objects of Desire,” unpublished paper, Hagley Library and Archive, Wilmington, Delaware, 37 (www.hagley.org/library/collections/historicalref/articles/HOROWITZ_DICHTER.pdf). See also Daniel Horowitz, “The Émigré as Celebrant of American Consumer Culture: George Katona and Ernest Dichter,” in Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century, ed. Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 149–66.

  49. Packard, The Hidden Persuaders, 5

  50. Ernest Dichter, The Strategy of Desire (New York: Doubleday, 1960), 258.

  51. Horowitz, “Birth of a Salesman,” 28.

  52. Rubin took a “smorgasbord course in New Consciousness” and had Reichian therapy, which he said broke down his inhibitions, but he described its philosophy as “disturbingly conservative.” See Jerry Rubin, Growing Up at Thirty-seven (New York: M. Evans, 1976), 20, 50.

  53. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (New York: Harper and Bros., 1946).

  54. Foucault questions the naïve optimism of what he calls Reich’s “repressive hypothesis.” See Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (New York: Vintage, 1980), 11.

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