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

hardcover – June 7, 2011
by Turner, Christopher
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ISBN-13: 9780374100940 ISBN-10: 0374100942
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding
hardcover
Published
June 7, 2011
Weight
1.8 lbs
Dimensions
23.10×5.10×15.70 cm

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Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America by Turner, Christopher. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780374100940.

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 €œorgastic 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 vi